Page 166 of Broken Veil
Lachlan nodded. “How much time do we have?”
“Enough time to tell you not to be reckless with your life,” Seren said fiercely. “Enough time to tell you to live and be happy.”
He shook his head. “I will live the rest of my life knowing that you are gone from me forever. Not even when I am dead will we be together.”
“Then there’s no reason to rush death, is there?”
Carys realized what the goddess’s parting words meant.
Tell him that when he is ready, he may join the one he loves.
She struggled to force the words into Seren’s mind.
He can be with you! Epona has given him passage to Annwn, the same as you and our mother!
“Be quiet, Carys, it’s my time now, and he doesn’t need to know that.”
“I don’t need to know what?”
“She’ll tell you later because she won’t be able to keep her mouth shut.” Seren put her hand on Lachlan’s cheek. “I hear Arawn’s hounds, Lachlan. The hunt is coming. I have to leave.”
“If I kiss you,” Lachlan said, “then I kiss you goodbye.”
“You’re not going to kiss me,” Seren said, “because this is still her body.”
Thank you.
“Carys, shut up.” Seren kept her hand on Lachlan’s cheek, but she turned to Cadell. “Hello, old friend.”
Cadell smiled. “Hello, my lady.”
“I miss our flights together.”
He nodded. “As do I.”
“I know you had other lords, but I was your favorite, right?”
Hey!
Cadell nodded with a hint of amusement in his eyes. “Of course you were, Princess Seren.”
She turned back to Lachlan. “Don’t tell Father about this. I have to go, and I couldn’t bear to see him.”
“No.” He grabbed her hand. “Seren, please?—”
“I have to go, my darling man.” She pressed a kiss to his cheek. “But this is only farewell. I’ll see you again.”
“Seren!”
Carys felt a wave of nausea, and the sound of dogs bellowed in the distance. There was a wave of darkness and the whisper of her mother’s kiss on her forehead.
Then Seren and Tegan were gone.
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
Carys recuperated in King Dafydd’s castle for a week, nursed by Eamer and Laura, guarded by Duncan and Cadell.
And by the third day, she was going stir-crazy.
