The Mystical Attraction of Alpha

Ella

“Ella, you can’t just demand

But I glare at Sinclair, slicing my hand through the air and shaking my head as I realize that he can’t hear what I’m hearing.

And the first thing that comes to my ears…

Is a laugh.

“All right, little daughter,” a soft voice says, and I instantly recognize it as my mother. “I stopped there for a reason, but if you get out of my pool, I’ll give you one more.”

I narrow my eyes at the moon but do as the Goddess bids, stepping out of the pool.

“I ended there because I do not know the outcome,” she says, her voice sorrowful. “His mission will be…his own. But, I do know this…”

And I reach out and put a hand on Sinclair’s arm, very tense. I gasp a little as a new vision forms very fleeting, very brief –

But in it, Jesse is an old, old man wrinkles crinkle around his eyes as he smiles down at a child in his arms

His grandchild, or maybe his great- grandchild or maybe not a child of his blood at all, but certainly one he loves very, very much –

soon as it comes, but it’s

– he lives. And it’s

up now towards the sky, the tension

Thank you.”

than they were before. “Even if you don’t trust this world,

understanding, committing

magic was here lifts,

fades until it’s just…a lake, or a

staring down at me

you see?” I

his head at me. “See you plunge into the pond yelling at the sky like

when he continues to stare at me I let out

“She showed you more!?”

ended with Jesse in

then glances up at the moon, as if he wants to get mad now but he’s a little too scared of her for blasphemy. “Well, that hardly seems fair,” he murmurs. ” Why do

down at his shoes, “have warm dry feet. So. Fair