Page 31 of Wings of The Wraith
He turned to face me when I reached him and smiled.
“You brought the night inside the ship?” I chuckled looking around.
“I like night. I like stars.”
“I used to be able to name all of them.”
“I really doubt that. No one can name all the stars.” A smile danced on his lips.
“Okay, all the stars that can be seen from earth.” I offered remembering all the realms.
“You can see the same stars in any realm, it just depends on the alignment. In some realms you can see more. The veil is a lot thinner.”
“Realms. And, veils. I still can’t get my head around it.”
“You haven’t had enough time to do anything of the sort.” He pointed out.
I was glad he said that because I was starting to think I was expected to grasp and accept all of this newness and be okay with it.
“Have you always been a part of it?” I knew that angels were people once. Very good people who were chosen to do God’s work because they were so good. But Grandma said sometimes other magical beings were chosen too.
“Seems like always. It’s been long enough. So long I can’t remember. I do know it took me more than two days to grasp and I had more help. I also didn’t have to travel on an airship to the shadowlands because evil was after me.”
I appreciated his understanding. Staring at him now I felt that spark again. That spark I wanted to ignore but found irresistible.
It was like it called to me. an unwelcomed blush crept up my cheeks and I tried to push my thoughts aside.
“Where are we now?” I asked swallowing hard against the lump that formed in my throat.
Catharis was in the woodland realm. What I didn’t know was if we’d come out of it.
“We’ll leave Catharis shortly, and then we’ll pass through the human realm where we’ll get to the portal.”
“And then we’ll be open for attack, right?”
“Don’t worry about that.”
“Really? Are you kidding?” I felt that something bad was going to happen. I was too anxious. Every time I got anxious like this something bad would follow, something beyond my control. “You think they’re just going to allow you to take me. They know you have me. If they find out we’re going to the Shadowlands, what’ll happen then?”
He walked over to me and put out his hand for me to take. I took it and he ushered me closer to the rail.
Once there he snapped his fingers and more stars appeared. Bright stars, and different colors. Luminous pinks, bright blues and green sparkled in radiance above us.
To say it was beautiful didn’t feel like it was enough of a description.
“What did you do?” I beamed looking at everything, trying to commit it to my memory.
“This is what it used to look like. Long before I was even alive.”
I looked back to him and wondered how old he was.
“When was that?” We were kind of talking about that before I asked where we were.
“I was a Templar Knight. I died in the crusades.”
My lips parted. “Really? The crusades as in the crusades that were like eight hundred years ago?”
“Yes. I’m a lot older than you.” He grinned that sexy grin that made my knees turn to water. “Angels take on whatever age they were during the prime of their life. I died when I was thirty-six.”
