Page 92 of Gift from the Source
She blessed it…still feeding from its home. What?
“Explain that better, V. When it was brought here, did it not like become hers and work off her power?”
“Well, of course, in a sense. But she knew for it to perform to its greatest strength, it would need a connection to its home. Any living creation will eventually do one or two things in this predicament. Lose its abilities if cut off from their source of power after so much time or adapt to the new power around it. This crystal would be fine if it was out in nature, but it’s been in this room and realm for eighty-six years now. It would’ve diminished significantly without her keeping its connection to the Valorian Veil active. Add in her blessing that’s surrounding it and it’s thriving just as it should.”
“It has to have been here longer than eighty-six years. The portal to the Valorian Veil closed a thousand years ago,”I say, slightly confused on his timeline.
I understood everything else, though. I remember Franklin bitching about how his power began dwindling after so many years in the nonmagical realm. Plus, Elementra wasn’t serving him anymore by that time.
“The main portal did, yes, but your mother went and retrieved this after your Guardria asked her to.”
I flinch back as though he electrocuted me.
That doesn’t make senseat all.
“What about that doesn’t make sense, filia?”V asks as though I’m the one who’s confused him.
“My mom only left this realm to go to the nonmagical. And Gaster built this room for CC after his emerging, which was when he was fifteen. He put the crystals in here. Which would mean that the Angel Aura would’ve been here for like two hundred and thirty-odd years.”
“Ah, I see. You just haven’t gotten the full story yet, is all. This would’ve come at a different time as well had Caspian not messed up my sequence of events. Go ahead and open your mother’s book for your lesson. There will be a simple explanation in there,”V instructs, and I have half a mind to argue and demand a better explanation.
The other half that really wants to open my mom’s book and get the answers from her wins.
Moving the book from my lap to sitting it on the platform in front of me, I quickly prick my finger, then say the half of my lullaby needed to open it. My dragon’s sight surfaces instinctively to aid me in this dimly lit room and I peel the cover open. Like the other two times I’ve done this now, a smile crosses my face as the ink starts filling out the page.
Our final lesson on the portals, my little dragonfly.
Once again, it’s going to be a lot of information, but it’s in your blood and will feel just as natural as breathing once it all settles. It’s a bulk of information, but unlike the other two times, the process of what you’re about to learn, you already know. You’re just applying it in a different method. The newness will come from the other places.
So it shouldn’t hit you as hard as the last lesson. You just have to prepare yourself, suspend your nerves if you can, and buckle in.
Easier said than done, Momma.
I’ve saved the best for last. Opening and connecting portals to other realms. Well, I also wasn’t given an option but to save this lesson for last, but that’s beside the point.
Traveling the realms is by far the most invigorating experience. The blood in our veins hums for it. It craves it. That’s what we were blessed to do.
I unfortunately did not get to travel nearly as much as the women before me. And sadly enough, each of the travels I did take was not of my own desireor idea. The only reason I took those risks was because it was asked of me and I knew I wouldn’t have been asked if the risk was too high.
Two of the times I left Elementra, as you know, was to the nonmagical realm. Awful experiences both times.
The other three times…Mystara Hollow, The Valorian Veil, and Essemist Keep.
So fortunately for me, I have seen five of the six realms. I made the most of my adventures with my men at my side. I explored what little I could, indulged in different food, felt the foreign magic, and met wonderful people along the way.
I hope one day you get to see all of them and all their glory. Of course none hold a flame to Elementra, in my opinion. Regardless, they each are so special, magical, and beautiful in their own ways. Even the dreaded nonmagical realm. Plus, they all hold very important purposes for our way of life.
As much as I want to tell you every last detail of those trips, I can’t. Those adventures were requested of me from CC and affect much of your life now. He’s going to have to explain why that is to you.
I’m sorry about that little teaser, sweetie, because I have no idea when those stories unfold from him.
“Oh, don’t you worry, I’m going to be asking that here very soon,”I say mentally, meant for myself, but V makes a rumbling little purr. When I cast my eyes to him, he turns his head the other way to ignore me.
I won’t ramble on any longer. I know you’re itching for this, and I’m so excited to get to this part. So just as before, repeat after me.
‘Release to me the ties of time and space,
Deliver the information for me to embrace.’
