Page 57 of Wings of The Wraith
He waved his hand and one of the crystal shards before us turned into a blob of water. Within the water I could see Balmora. A human Balmora in Greece, Sparta.
She had children and a husband.
The water flickered and I saw that the husband cheated on her every chance he got. Then he deceived her and went in league with the Persians. The vision changed to a house burning, her children were inside.
The husband’s deception caused that to happen. Her last act as a human was to trade her soul to the necromancer. That was before the mages bound him.
Giving her soul to him gave him power.
I understood what the guardian meant for me to do.
“I could go back there, and truly none of this would ever have happened. I could...” I thought about it long and hard. “I could maybe save more people than I intended.”
Her children.
It wasn’t her husband’s deception that made Balmora turn to evil, it was the loss of her children.
“That is definitely true.”
This was the part of me that I hadn’t tapped into for years. The being I was when I was a sentinel. The being who had to have compassion for all people good or bad, and make decisions based on what was right.
That was how I was before I was cast out. Being cast out, didn’t mean I didn’t have the ability to be like that again.
“Will it work? What if she finds another way to be evil?”
“No. I can assure you that will not happen.”
“And Alyssa. She will come back.”
He nodded. “As to whether she will remember you, I don’t know. She is a syphon and their paths are difficult to predict.”
“Will she still be my soul mate?”
“That will never change.”
I was happy to hear that. If that was still true then maybe things would still work out. I had the benefit of knowing now. So I could find her myself. Wherever she was when things changed I would find her.
At least she would be alive. And so would Malachi. He’d be alive too. The sentinels would all be alright.
I would make sure I saw him more. As much as was allowed.
“Okay. Please send me to that time, to Sparta.”
The guardian smiled at me. “As you wish, and because your decision will save more than one soul I will slow the dark essence of the wraith in your being. I will slow it for another thousand years. We will need the teleportation stone you possess now, but you get to keep the five items you originally collected.”
I was truly grateful for that. “Thank you so much.”
“You are most welcome. I do believe the Order have another teleportation stone.” He raised a curious white brow.
Yes they did. God, through all the crazy events of the last few days I’d forgotten the mission the guys and I were going to take up for the Order.
“Thank you.”
I looked back at Alyssa, at her beautiful form and prayed all this would all work, and that somehow she would still love me.
Lord Argon waved his hand and the teleportation stone in my pocket moved to him, but stopped in between us.
With another wave of his hand everything turned a luminous red and I felt myself move through time.
