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Chapter 390

Chapter 390:The Temple

Ella

It is, indeed, a long climb. Cora and I are panting by the time we get to the top,

and even though Sinclair took Rafe from me halfway through the hike I have to

take a moment to catch my break when we pull ourselves up to the final level.

Roger has the indecency to look a little smug about the fact that he barely looks

winded and Cora gives him a little shove on the shoulder as she works to take a

few deep breaths and wipe the sweat from her brow.

Even as I work to bring my heartrate back down, I absolutely marvel at the sight

before me.

The Goddess’ temple, like the one in the city, is built completely with white

marble. But unlike the one in the city, this one looks…ancient. Vines grow in

ropes all over it, looking almost as if the structure is part of the forest itself,

having grown up organically from it. The temple is tall and wide, the pillars in

front drawing my eyes upward to the slanted roof which curls into a dome. At the

very peak of the dome is a golden crescent moon, reaching up towards the sky,

glinting in the bright sunlight.

“Wow,” Cora says, standing straight next to me and likewise marveling at the

temple. “Mom has some… impressive property.”

“I know, right?” I mutter back, crossing my arms and shaking my head. If

someone had told me, when I was a little girl sleeping in my creaky little orphan

bed, that my mom lived here…

Well. I probably would have believed them.

But I was a very imaginative child.

“Um,” Roger says, looking anxiously at Cora. “Shall we?”

I smile at him, seeing that he’s eager to move on but also that he wants to give

her room to process this experience. It’s more intense for her than it is for him,

and I think that it’s very sweet that he realizes this. Roger really has come leaps

and bounds as a person from when I first met him.

Sinclair comes to stand next to me and I grin at him and then turn to my baby,

taking his hands and speaking to him quietly, asking him how he likes it here

and if he’s ready to meet his granny for real this time. Rafe claps and gurgles

like he really is excited.

he understands sometimes,” I say quietly, smiling up at

proudly down at his son.

to kiss my baby’s

the world

title for about…five more months,” Roger calls to us,

chest with a smirk. Sinclair just laughs

letting it pass.

Cora?” I ask, moving again

me a nod and reaching for my

breath, the five of us begin to

a woman in dove- colored robes comes out of the

for a moment, going still at the

the last time I saw themBut I feel Sinclair behind me, his hand warm against my back, and

of comfort comes down the bond and I exhale, skipping forward

stay at Cora’s side.

he’s right. This is…this is not

meet is going to

them, surely, actually serve my

little and giving us a

“Daughters of the Goddess – you are

right on time.”

at each other and then look back to the woman. “Is

priestess smiles warmly at me but Cora turns to me with a

“Can’t you feel her?”

a second and then, as I realize what

here already – I bite my lip,

cannot feel her. I used up’ our bond – used the magic of it

that I could save my child, and Cora, and my

a startled “o” of concern, but I

hard

hand. “I’m glad

nods to me, sympathetic, and then we both

priestess says, smiling around at our whole

to let her gaze linger on the baby, admiring him. “Please, do

inside.”

as a group, we follow the priestess into

everyone’s heart is

the ones that

elegantly

is… cozy. The architecture is still

live here and treat it as

padded benches by the

the little worn stick

is my favorite temple of all – and that I quite

middle of the large central room of

beneath the dome, but instead leads us across it to a door

opens it, she turns to us with a warm smile.

asks, giving us a

behind her ears

his face very serious. He is, after

for the first

reach for the baby, who Sinclair helps me unbuckle from the

I do it, but somehow I want Rafe quite close

It feels

– and Sinclair has placed a warm hand

the priestess who opens the door and leads

immediately, we all doThe beautiful Goddess, standing at the far end of the room, glowing

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