House Of Legions (The Angel Descendants book 1)

She was crooning the little male bundle, having had him for the past twenty minutes. Kalbreal bent down to her knees and sat flat on the ground. She could feel his eyes on her as she played with the baby's chin, murmuring “You’re so handsome little one, you’ll break many hearts, yes you will.”

Kalbreal laughed, “I’m sure he will, it’s close now.”

“What is?”

“The naming, when he receives his name, he also receives his seraph energy, his Gazool, it what makes him half Angel.”

She lifted her chin, her eyes still fixed on the baby who lay cradled in her arms, her nephew. “Is that why all the people are here.”

“Yes.”

She appreciated the opportunity, it was good to see a new life after that which she lost. She brushed the thought of her mother and stared deeper into the baby’s eyes, “When do his parents name him?”

Kalbreal leaned in, his voice loud and clear so she could hear it in the crowd of noise, “His name is given by Adonai, when it’s written on the Akashic it’ll show visible on his skin, there is only one name.”

Clare smiled and played with the baby, hearing the people as they talked and laughed amongst each other. Whilst she tickled the baby’s cheeks she lifted the infant boy and laid butterfly kisses on his rosy cheeks, and inhaled the scent of a newborn.

Kalbreal still focused on her as the minutes passed, she smiled at the thought of how long he sat there watching her with a disbelieving look, she asked, “Do you wanna carry him?”

“When he gets his name yeah, of course, it’s the only reason I’m here.”

“Did you ever have one, a baby?”

He scowled, and tensed up, “No.”

someday. So do tell, what’s the Akashic?”

and thumb, “Something you

I can’t argue there, you are

back and gawking at him. They both wore brown Armor like hers, she was surprised that Kalbreal didn’t even turn around

blanket. Clare touched the little fingers carefully, having never touched a newborn baby before

something’s happening.”

“What?”

the child’s entire face had a light under the flesh, making him glow like

held the baby tight, “Call

that, the baby's receiving his name, open your hands and remove the blanket.”

Clare had been all too familiar within the recent past, those shed from loss and sorrow, anger and heartache. She averted her gaze from mother to baby, which squirmed in her arms. Her heart pounded as she decided to follow Kalbreal’s instructions. Luela didn’t seem in any state to handle it, and nobody stepped forward to assist, so it was now up to her.

kept him tucked to her chest. The baby now naked, she lifted him, the blanket falling to the floor at the same time she

passed, his heart pulsing, as crimson vines illuminated through his untainted flesh. The site breathtaking, pure, so Angelic, astounded her speechless. To think, she thought that nothing could amaze her after she had glimpsed the beauty

But…

of the baby, was celestial, unearthed, inhuman. Keeping her emerald eyes on the boy, fascination clear on her face, she

was in the air, floating on an invisible cloud. He didn’t cry or moan, instead, he kicked his

through the Gazool

other’s stood further back, Kalbreal now next to her, amused

listened dubiously and took a few steps back as Kalbreal moved under the baby who drifted further into the air.

when this spectacular occurrence was happening. What could make this young mother so mortal? She searched around, moving her head slowly from left

When the brightness beyond her eyelids finally dimmed a good few minutes later, Clare opened them and saw Kalbreal as he held the baby. His free hand on top of the babies face, releasing sparks of fire. Directly over the child’s naked body,

baby above his head, “Arsheal.”

but she didn’t move, as her eyes wandered back to Luela, who smiled, but with