Page 16 of Fortune Fae Academy
Everything?I asked in response. She sounded bewildered, but also in awe as if she were gazing upon the most beautiful piece of art ever created.
I tried to see for myself, but my ability to direct the Web was gone.
I could only receive whatever my Omega gave me.
It’s so beautiful, Zeke. I’ve never seen the Web like this before. It’s… everywhere. It’s everything. I can’t describe it.
A sliver of ice ran up my spine as my Omega drew me in deeper with her.
Let me show you…
My breath hitched as the images filtered in.
First, I saw the world through her eyes.
Two Alphas knelt at her feet. That alone was something I had never expected to see in my lifetime.
But then she dove into the dimension of the Web that ran underneath our world like an entire ocean behind a curtain of sparkling water.
The Web was a stunningly intricate thing, but I’d never seen it quite like this. Silver strands glowed with otherworldly light as far as I could see.
It connected every being in the universe, but it wasn’t stagnant. It continually moved and shifted as decisions were made, new timelines born with the souls that controlled them and others abruptly cut off as those lives ended.
Everything was bound together, from the tiniest grain of sand to the largest star.
I could see it all in her mind in a way that I had never seen the Web before. Patterns appeared from this massive viewpoint, complex and elegant, weaving together an infinite number of possibilities and outcomes.
Look,Gina said, nudging me toward a brilliant cluster of our universe and ones that expanded beyond it.
A profound sense of awe and peace washed over me as I allowed my Omega to show me the entirety of existence. Sheheld a youthful sense of joy, like a child who had just discovered a particularly beautiful flower off the beaten path.
And I felt that joy with her.
My Omega guided me further into the tapestry of fate as we moved through time and space. Her effortless guidance would have been impossible for any other Fortune Fae, even an Elder.
Was this the power of the Shard that Amell had spoken of?
Or was this the true might of my glorious dreamcatcher that had drawn the Shard to her?
Gina’s unfettered joy soaked into my spirit as she showed me timelines that had yet to come to fruition but were already woven into existence in the Web.
These were the patterns of prophecy, I realized. As Fortune Fae, we accessed these clusters, but we didn’t understand them. That was why our prophecies came out garbled and vague.
We could read the patterns, but Gina could turn over the tapestry and understand the chaos of thread that bound it.
This was something the Fortune Fae had likely never even seen before. A view behind the curtain.
Zeke!
Pain lanced through me, ripping me from my Omega’s powerful and comforting presence as she cried in response to my sudden absence.
I roared at the unexpected agony of Roderik’s claws in my leg.
“This one’s up to something,” he said matter-of-factly, as if he weren’t scraping my bones with his talons through flesh and skin.
Amell sighed with exasperation. “Yes, I’m well aware. Thank you very much for interrupting my experiment with the Beta. Why did you think he was here?”
I gritted my teeth and tried to shift my leg, but Roderik only dug his claws in deeper.
