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.”

much do you know?” I ask, looking back up at her, wondering if

do I need to tell her that

she says, smiling at us. “Your lives

I’m very pleased that you have found each other,

to hear her use Roger’s pet term for

smile at Roger, “though I’d have preferred

sooner. I believe it would have saved you

pain.”

his credit, blushes and looks down. “Cora’s

at me. “You should have

other things to worry about,” the Goddess says

everything to your mate.”

but he looks

we both know that he doesn’t mean

wish to know?”

child?”

eager. “Do

Cora,” my mother says,

hear the heartbeat now. Your

in relief. I mean – we

beams a wide smile at me and reaches out

I slide my hand into his, palm to

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

you,” my mother says, turning

me, curious.

lip, glancing at Roger, who is

from his face. And in my disappointment I realize that we were

much that our child would be a wolf. Not that I would mind

baby- but for him, for the child’s place in our

snapping our

says, smiling and

What I mean to say here is that…hmm,” she looks up at

through. “It is difficult to put into words…I

to pound again

you would use for it,” she continues, still looking

Your baby is…both human

looks

forward in my curiosity. ”

me…”

eyes back down again and

a smile spreading across her

but

as I stare

confusion makes her laugh – not in a

mother who watches her child

about the world.

I ask, my

shock.

human, Cora,” my mother says, leaning forward

– your father was a

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