Chapter 391: Conversations with the Goddess

Cora

My heart is pounding as I follow my mother into the chamber beyond, as Roger

shuts the door behind us. My mother crosses the room with ease almost

seeming to float. And then I blink in surprise as I realize that…she probably is

floating. I mean, she’s here – she’s corporeal – but it’s all a show, isn’t it? She

doesn’t need to walk on her feet if she doesn’t want to.

And something about that idea makes me laugh a little, easing my tension. My

mother turns when she hears the sound of my laugher and smiles at me, at both

of us, before sitting down before a tiny table with a tray of tea on it.

Roger and I cross the short room together, sitting down across from her.

Thoughtfully, Roger pours two cups of tea, which is hot and smells minty and

fresh. Then, hesitating at the sight of the third cup, he raises an eyebrow at

my mother. She laughs a little too, and I’m shocked to hear that her laugh

sounds just like my own – the same rhythm, the same cadence. Something

about that makes me smile.

“Yes, Roger,” she says, nodding towards it. “I can’t drink the tea – but it is nice to

have an offering of it.”

Nodding, Roger pours the cup of tea for the Goddess and slides it across the

table towards her. Then he places a sugar cube in my teacup – knowing I’ll want

it and sits back in his chair, folding his hands in his lap.

“You’ve had a long journey, Cora,” my mother says, looking at me warmly. “In

more ways than one.”

“Yes,” I reply, smiling at the understatement in her words. And then I look down

at my stomach and place my hands on it, shaking my head. “A journey that has

raised…a lot of questions for us.’

“I understand,” she says. “It will bring me a great deal of joy to help you answer

those questions, if I can.”

looking back up at her, wondering if I

I need to tell her that I’m

says, smiling at us. “Your lives are…open

I’m very pleased that you have

says, and I grin to hear her use Roger’s pet term for

before. Then she turns to smile at Roger, “though

sooner. I believe it would have

pain.”

looks down. “Cora’s the

at me. “You should have sent

things to worry about,” the Goddess says easily. “You can’t

everything to your mate.”

Roger’s blush deepens, but he looks up at both of us with

and we both

wish

child?”

I breathe, leaning forward, eager. “Do you know? Is

my

heartbeat

I both exhale in relief. I mean – we

wide smile at me and reaches out to take

hand into his,

my baby a wolf?” I ask, turning back to my mother,

my mother says, turning her

me, curious.

lip, glancing at Roger, who is unable to

And in my disappointment I

our child would be a wolf. Not

for the child’s place in

snapping our attention

daughter,” she says, smiling and shaking her head.

say here is that…hmm,”

is difficult to put into words…I do not

pound again as she

you would use for

Your baby

a little and Roger looks between us both, confused. “Really?”

forward in my curiosity.

me…”

draws her eyes back down again

smile spreading across her

a human and a wolf, but

I stare at her, trying…trying

laugh

of a mother who watches

about the world.

what do you mean?” I ask, my

shock.

human, Cora,” my mother says,

father was a human.

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