Page 183 of Gift from the Source
Generations survived. Planning, preparing, and waiting for the next evil to come about.
And he did.
And he would win.
Elementra saw what it would take to possibly change that outcome.
One daughter would be cursed, so another would be blessed.
The joining of creation and destruction to produce the last one.
One balanced with all the things needed to survive the longest.
With all given from the daughters before, this filia could carry on the responsibilities of the realm for as long as the realm shall live.
Elementra will not only survive but thrive if she can defeat the destruction.
And you will.
A drop of red falls on the words and I slowly lift my shaking fingers to my wet lips. The salty taste explodes across my tongue as the blood continues to dribble from my nose. My eyes bounce across the pages so fast I don’teven truly see what the ink says. I just know what’s there because it’s imprinting on my mind.
The power crackling around the room is suffocating.
My breaths come shorter, but my mom’s words don’t relent or release me.
Our gift began as just the blessing of being from Elementra’s direct line.
It became so much more.
We have the blood to travel the realms, the control of all four elements, and we are the beholders of any ability given to the ones we share bonds with.
As you well know, the strengths of bonds vary.
The strongest of them all is the bond between a true Nexus.
To ensure that we were balanced with our men, our gifts that we get from them will reach a limit. Whereas theirs will grow slightly stronger. The same is said for the elements but opposite. Our elements will always come more naturally and stronger than theirs will.
That is why some of the things your men and other bonds can do, you cannot. It’s why you can control both your elements and theirs so well.
Times and evolution of our gift changed as needed.
In the beginning, we would only get their gift once we bonded. The souls needed to split and merge as one for the blessings to be shared.
A small piece of what we’d eventually get once we found our Nexus came through with our emerging but not enough the gift would manifest. Think of it like a signal being sent from our soul to theirs. On a deeper level, we’d know we had a Nexus and they’d know they’d have what we now call a true Primary.
The wait between emerging and finding them was more like training. The members of the Nexus needed to find each other and form a cohesive relationship first. While we harnessed our elements to the best of our ability before they came, and we added their gifts as well.
Then it was just a matter of time finding them once we were ready.
That took approximately twenty-six years.
Desperate times called for our gifts to emerge sooner, though.
As you’ve seen, my wolf emerged along with my elements. I needed a sense of protection. My wolf was going to be the strongest defensive gift I was going to get.
You were a mixture of the two. The beginning and the now.
A piece of your Nexus’s gifts latched onto your soul much earlier than when you emerged. Your signal was sent out with your first awakening.
