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.”

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

his index and thumb, “Something

there, you are the Angel, obviously.”

standing at his back and gawking at him. They both wore brown Armor like hers, she

carefully, having never touched a newborn baby before now, it was an all too new experience for her, especially when she stared into the baby’s eyes as he smiled, the forehead of

happening.”

“What?”

a light under the flesh, making him glow like a pink

she held the baby

late for that, the baby's receiving his name, open your hands and remove

gathered around her as the mother rushed through the crowd of people, with tears brimming in her eyes, it wasn’t happy ones, but those that 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

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

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

But…

because that’s what it looked like, felt like, beneath the skins’ surface of the baby, was celestial, unearthed, inhuman. Keeping her emerald eyes on the boy, fascination clear on her face, she watched

arms and started to rise from her hands, until he was in the air, floating on an invisible cloud. He didn’t cry or moan,

extraordinary, as the innocence of the baby flourished through the

next to her, amused by her astonishment, “You

steps back as Kalbreal moved under the baby who drifted further into the air. Instinctively she turned her head and watched as Luela cried

searched around, moving her head slowly from left to right

the baby, as the others and herself positioned at least four meters away. The emanating light grew brighter until it was so bright that Clare while struggling to keep her eyes open, could still see the light through her eyelids. When the brightness beyond her eyelids finally dimmed a good few minutes later, Clare

and lifted the baby above his head,

as her eyes wandered back to Luela, who smiled, but with haunting sadness. Behind her, Clare caught sight of