Page 127 of Broken Veil
Duncan snorted.
“Okay…” Carys shrugged. “The parallel might not be perfect.”
They startedon the road before noon, but it was still going to be five hours before they hit Swansea.
Carys spent her time in the car reading as much as she could find online about the Welsh goddess Dôn, whom Seren suspected was one of the Mothers, and Oshun, the Nigerian fertility goddess Joshua had mentioned.
Mothers.
Fertility.
The Morrígan had aspects of fertility in her power.
Sovereignty. Wealth. Fertility of the land.
There were many scholarly interpretations of the Morrígan’s powers and hardly any of them agreed with each other.
The parts that did agree were those about war, battle, and bloodshed.
At the second stop, she started feeling sleepy, so she let Laura sit in front, and she moved to the back of the van where she fell asleep on Cadell’s shoulder.
“Carys.”
At first she thought Cadell was nudging her mind.
What?
It is not me disturbing you from your rest, it is the prince.
Carys opened her eyes to see Lachlan sitting in the seat in front of her, completely turned around.
“Hey.” She blinked. “What’s up?”
Lachlan had been avoiding her for days, and now he was shoving himself into her space?
“Do you have a moment?”
Cadell was less patient than Carys was. “She was sleeping.”
“I know that but?—”
“It’s fine.” She lifted her head and wiped a tiny bit of drool from the dragon’s shoulder. “Sorry about that.”
“It is to be expected.” Cadell moved to the right next to Laura, leaving the seat beside Carys empty.
Lachlan moved back and sat next to her. “This van is huge.”
“Almost more like a bus than a van.”
Lachlan smiled. “I’ll make sure to remind Duncan that he was a bus driver on this quest.”
“And I’m sure he’ll appreciate that.”
Leave it to a brother—or a doppelgänger—to needle you about the stupidest things.
“You said you had a dream about Seren last night.”
Ah, yes. That was why he was talking to her. “We were mostly talking about what Joshua told me about going to Annwn and visiting the Mothers so they could point us in the right direction.”
