Page 65 of Surviving Enchantment: Part One
The blonde one shook his head.“We are fine.You are her foster sister?”
Kaitha sighed.“I consider myself her sister, and we don’t make a distinction here, but I know she is very careful about it outside the house.When we were in school, she got teased when it was common knowledge that she wasn’t blood.Teased is a mild word for it.It was relentless, and my parents tried to step in, but it never reached the children.They continued right through mage training.She managed to hold the dark fae aspect at bay until she was out and away.”
Solor frowned.“What do you mean?”
“I mean that no one knew she was dark fae until she was a trained mage and out in the world.At that point, she got away from here as fast as she could.”
The brunette asked, “Why?”
“To start her life where no one knew her.She got EMT training, learned to drive an ambulance, and slid into her new career.She was good at it.Really good.She’s also insanely powerful and has fixed precognition that seems to be trained on her sisters.”
Solor blinked.“What do you mean, sisters?You mean you and the one she helped the night before last night, right?”
“No.She has one older sister.She’s a thrall, though.Nothing to do.Her grandfather sold her somewhere.She’s stuck.”
Demuel frowned.“It’s forbidden to sell fae.”
“She isn’t fae.She’s all mage blood.”Kaitha shrugged.“As far as I know.I have never met her.”
“Why not?”
“Because Nylora found her while she was travelling.They knew each other the moment they locked eyes.”She held up a hand and left, bringing back a picture of Nylora taken with a spectral-effect camera.“Whoever she is, she takes an amazing image.I have never seen the physical and spectral captured so clearly before.”
Kaitha smiled when the brunette said, “Can we keep this?”
She chuckled.“Let me take a print.It’s a tricky procedure.It would be easier if she gave me her sister’s information, but we have to go through her master, and I am not up for that.Dark mages are creepy.Oh, I am Kaitha, by the way.”
They paused and got up, inclining their heads.“I am Solor.I fathered her child.”
“I am Demuel.I hope to father her second.”
“Hm.Well, she does want a huge family of her own.She’s never been fussy on the idea of who the father was.”Kaitha looked at the image of Nylora in business attire, standing with shadows and moonlight with pulsing halos around her.
“Nylora looks the same.”
“She won’t age until she wants to, and since she wasn’t able to have a proper family because my parents weren’t allowed to adopt her.They wanted to, but because there was no clue as to her origins, and the traces they could detect led to families who didn’t want to claim her, she was marked as unadoptable.They couldn’t let her attach to a family when she had her own bloodlines that may eventually claim her.Of course, she didn’t explain her origin until after she was out of school.Then it all made sense.”
Solor said, “You will give us details?”
“Sure.She could have said no before she went to sleep.What do you want to know?”
Demuel asked, “Her parents?”
“Tricky.She was made by thirds.Her grandfather was a demon king who ordered his daughter to collect samples for an heir.When she had samples from the mages who had summoned her, her father ordered her to bear him a daughter.She went to her favourite lover, got two eggs from the witch, and went home to have the little girls.”
“Her mother is a succubus.”
“Yes, and now, king of their little area of the demon zone.Having the twins gave her the power boost she needed to kill her father.She occasionally sends messages through, but she is no blood relation to any of her children.She just wants to know how they are doing.There is no leverage.She made sure there wouldn’t be.”
Solor said, “What about the third sibling.The eldest?”
“She was the experiment.She was dropped out of the demon zone the moment she was born.She got adopted, but when she went looking for her birth mother, she ended up in the demon zone, and her grandfather sold her to a dark mage.She has a career as a photographer, but she’s bound to him.As I said, I don’t know her name, I haven’t met her.”
Demuel snorted.“Demonborn but not demonblood.That makes sense now.”
Solor said, “She intended to go through the pregnancy on her own.”
“She did, but she has a village of friends to help her.She’s covered.”
