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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.

I say quietly, smiling

Sinclair says, grinning proudly down

say, leaning closer to kiss my baby’s forehead. “Yes, he is.

baby the world will ever

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

smirk. Sinclair

letting it pass.

I ask, moving again to

so,” she says, giving me a nod and reaching for my hand. I give

five of us begin to walk towards the temple. As

colored robes

for a moment, going still at the sight

the last time I saw themBut I feel Sinclair behind me,

down the bond and I

stay at Cora’s side.

This is…this is not the

meet is going to try to take my

surely, actually

and giving us a deep smile as

Goddess – you are welcome here.

right on time.”

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

priestess smiles warmly at me but Cora turns to me

“Can’t you feel her?”

a second and then, as I realize what she means that

here already – I bite my lip, feeling a

up’ our bond – used the magic of it

could save my child, and Cora,

a startled

and work hard to give

okay,” I say, squeezing her hand. “I’m glad you can feel her for both of

me, sympathetic, and then we

priestess says, smiling around at

linger on the baby,

inside.”

so, as a group, we follow the priestess

if everyone’s heart is pounding as much as

is different than the ones that we’ve been in

the desert temple was elegantly sparse, and

and impressive, this one is… cozy.

tell that women live here

at the padded benches by the windows, at the well-loved books

and the little worn stick broom tucked into a corner, I

is my favorite temple of all – and that

priestess does not pause in the middle of the large central

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

opens it, she turns to

us a

her ears and Roger

his face very serious. He is,

such for the first time. I smile at

I reach for the baby, who Sinclair helps me

but somehow I want Rafe quite close to me as we

grandmother. It feels

we’re all ready – and Sinclair has placed a warm

nods to the priestess who opens the door and

all doThe beautiful Goddess, standing at the far end of the

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