Page 9 of Total Lunar Eclipse
Or even his words.
Jupiter thought before he spoke.
A rarity in all the Universe, really.
“We need to get Khal,” Zahra pipes up, breaking into my thoughts.
I nod my head in agreement, my emotions still too close to the surface for me to speak. I know she can feel my anger, my pain,my hate. But I don’t want her to feel my truth.
If it means saving herself fromherself, then the lie justifies itself.
Zahra pulls out of my arms and stands gracefully. She raises her arms and a portaljust opens. Being connected, I can easily access her thought patterns, as she has yet to learn how to block me. When she manifested the opening, there was barelyanyintention, if any at all.
Her mind processed that she needed to get to Khal and acted involuntarily. I am in awe. . . her powers are beyond description. With pure luminary energy added to Jupiter’s gift of expansion, she has become almighty. . . nigh unstoppable.
I make a mental note not to piss her off.
I also note her newly combined powers allow her to defy our retrograde status.
Fascinating.
“Found him,” Zahra announces.
She grabs my hand and we leap into the dark hole. Seconds later, it spits us out into my dimension, the Realm of Faunae. I’m not an emotional man, but tears prick my eyes. I have not seen my home for so long. Lina did not just cut us off from our powers, but also from where our souls belong.
I look around in fond amusement when I see Saturn surrounded by a pack of Squatches. The big, hairy animals must remind him of those intolerable fuckers back in his dimension. Of course, like the Ice Enforcers, the Squatches are trying to kill Saturn for intruding in their domain.
I let out a shrill whistle, and every creature within a five-mile radius comes to attention.
Their beloved creator has finally returned.
In seconds, I am tackled by animals, both big and small, familiar and unheard of on earth.
I see Zahra watch in wonderment. . .
Or maybe unease.
I reach out to her with my mind.
“Be at ease,little girl, they are under my control and will never harm you.”
“What happens when you lose control,dick head?”
“I won’t let that happen,”I swear fervently.
“Say that when I’m riding you backwards, cowgirl style, sucking off Khal.”
I shove off the wolf pack that had swarmed me and lithely roll to my feet, stalking towards the pink Goddess of Sex.
“Don’t start anything you aren’t prepared to finish,” I warn out loud.
“Enough,” Saturn commands, like the dictatorial bastard he is. “How the hell are the two of you here? What’s going on?”
I mentally convey everything that has happened while still prowling towards the delectable woman in front of me. Saturn’s sadness pulls me from my sexual haze. I walk over to him and rest a supportive hand on his shoulder while he processes the passing of our brothers.
Zahra reaches out for him too, but is still looking around.
“Want me to tell you what everything is?” I ask her.
