Ella
Cora wipes at her face with the palms of her hands. “I’m sorry,” she says. “I just…I kind of flipped out.”
“The vision wasn’t bad,” I say, “I promise it wasn’t. And we get it – if you came out of the baptism ceremony looking like you’d jumped into the pool? I’d have freaked out too!”
“Yeah, well,” she murmurs, glancing down at my stomach, “maybe I’ll just do that out of spite in six months, see how you like it.”
I laugh then, the noise surprising me, and Cora’s face breaks into a tentative smile.
“There’s my girl,” Roger murmurs, lifting a hand to wipe at the last of her tears.
“I think we need to hear all of it,” Cora says, nodding to Sinclair and then to me. “Please. Just…maybe just for this baby, our first.”
“Okay,” I whisper, nodding. And then Sinclair and I tell her all of it – of all the wonderful things we saw for Rafe as he grows up, and his happiness with his cousins. And then we tell of the darkness we saw, and the incredible way he moved through it – of the challenge clearly laid out for him in his future.
“Wow,” Roger says, a little baffled as he looks down at his baby. “I have…I have no way of really comprehending what any of that means,” he murmurs.
“It was difficult to know what we were seeing,” Sinclair replies, looking down at me for confirmation. I nod. “Then, Ella got really pissed. That’s when she jumped into the pool.”
“What?!” Cora gasps.
her end the vision there. So…we kind of got into a fight,
at her little baby. “We chose the right godmother for you,
a very clear told-you-so
it means?” Roger asks,
know,” I reply, resting my hand on my chin and gazing at the baby, wondering about his very strange and very interesting future. “He’s going to be very close with Rafe and with the new baby girl. And the way he handled a dagger, and the way he was dressed – I think he’s going to be
me with a little guilt in her eyes. “We saw Rafe was going to be a warrior too. So, at
just nod, tucking the information away. I mean, considering who his
that,
stepping away from me a little, looking down at me.
little apologetic laugh and
bad!?” he
will be his own and that she doesn’t know the outcome. But honestly, Cora, he seemed…very capable. And very powerful.”Books Chapters Are Daily
to nod to his brother and my sister. “That was the impression
quiet for a long moment, shifting their gaze to their
born if I wanted him to have a weird, cool, powerful gift, I’d have said hell yeah. But now that he’s here? And he’s so…tiny?” Roger takes a deep breath that breaks
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