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

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

pleased that you have found

says, and I grin to hear her

smile at

sooner. I believe it would

pain.”

blushes and looks down. “Cora’s

at me. “You should

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

everything to your mate.”

laugh at this and Roger’s blush deepens, but he looks up

we both know that he

wish to know?”

child?”

I breathe, leaning forward, eager. “Do you

perfectly healthy, Cora,” my mother

the heartbeat now. Your child is

I both exhale in relief. I mean – we

wide smile at me and reaches out to

slide my hand into

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

is like you,” my mother

me, curious.

Roger,

And in my disappointment

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

for the child’s place in our

again, snapping our attention back

smiling

that…hmm,”

it through. “It is difficult to put into words…I do not

starts to pound again as she sorts through her

word that you would use for it,” she continues, still

be hybrid? Your baby

and Roger looks between us both, confused.

forward in my curiosity. ” But you said

me…”

Goddess draws her eyes back down again and

says, a smile spreading across her face, “your child is a

wolf, but it

suddenly as I stare at her, trying…trying

my confusion makes her laugh – not

delighted way of a mother who watches

about the world.

my

shock.

are human, Cora,” my mother says, leaning forward to

your father was

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