Page 6 of Wings of The Wraith
My brows snapped together. I couldn’t believe it. After all I’d done. I still had to do more.
I wasn’t sure what to believe or think.
“Is this some trick to get me to help?”
“You may have fallen prey to human ways of thinking, and matters of the flesh, but dear brother you know I cannot lie. And I have no desire to.” He smiled at me. “Only the pure of heart can find Kolai. You will not be that until you save the girl.”
“How will she make me pure of heart?”
He looked uncomfortable again. “There are some things we shouldn’t know, but maybe this will help. The woman wasn’t just a charge. She was also your soul mate.”
“What? That makes no sense. We don’t have soul mates. There’s nothing like that for us.”
“I know, this was however a special case. You should have met her before you died in the human realm. The magic her ancestors casted messed with that happening. Her blood line became unpredictable. That was why she was born in this time.”
I looked at him in complete disbelief. I’d never heard anything like that before.
I couldn’t even conceive the idea of me having a soul mate let alone this whole bloodline thing.
“How did we not know about something like that, and why would her ancestors do that?”
“I know I’m beginning to sound like a broken record but we don’t know. We think her ancestors had something to hide.”
“Witches.” I hissed. They always had something to hide, but this was a bitch of a thing to hide.
“We traced her to the Mage Clan of the Woodland Realm.”
I frowned. Aurora was part of that clan. We had a lot of dealings with the mages. I wonder how in the hell they’d forgotten to tell me my soul mate was part of their clan.
“They don’t know.” Malachi said. He’d read my mind. “This is old magic. Something only their Elders would know more about.”
“Elders who can keep things from the host of heaven.”
“Unfortunately it appears that there are many like that. We never saw this thing with Razul coming. If he escapes everything will be a loss. Game over.”
“I don’t know how I’m supposed to do this. It normally takes a whole host of sentinels to fight a sorceress. I’m ...” I didn’t know if I was powerful enough to do it.
But, like hell I was interested to try.
“Dante. It doesn’t matter what happened to you. You’re a sentinel. There is no one like you. A normal angel would have turned into a wraith well before now. You are the only one strong enough to stop whoever is trying to release Razul. Go to the Mages. They will know more.”
I blinked several times, trying to process that.
“That woman...she’s no mere witch.” Balmora wouldn’t have gone after a mere witch.
“I think there’s more at work here. But I simply don’t know what. Now please, you have to find her, and follow the path she needs to take.” His eyes blazed with fire. “Find her and maybe you can save us all. But, above all else you must keep her safe. Think of the end result if you’re successful.”
The end result.
Not becoming a wraith demon. Wasn’t that what I’d wanted all these long years?
Find the girl, my soul mate, and she’d show me the path to being pure of heart...
“What’s her name?”
“Alyssa.”
