Page 3 of Messenger of Death
“Girlfriend, you just had the most dramatic god reveal in the history of ever. I’m Elliot. People are going to be shitting themselves when they find out you’re back.”
Morgana elbowed him.
“Spoilers. She might want to figure that out for herself.”
There was aloudroar, and a fucking dragon flew by my window. Shit, this was my life now.
“Blaize just found out about Kira. He’s going to rage all night,” the man who must be Petros said.
“Sage, someone died. Whoever you are, you have banshee-like powers. I asked if you were the original banshee, and Headmaster Mykene said you were so much more than that. YoufeltKira die and started screaming. Everyone knew what it meant but us, but we passed out, too. I met Kira and helped her cross over, but I still don’t know who killed her.”
Three crows landed on the windowsill. I knew Iman was Iman and not an actual house cat, but she didn’t go after them at all. She just bowed her head in reverence to the crows.
“Your familiars are here,” Morgana said.
“I have three of them?”
“Three is sacred. Three familiars, three names, and three mates,”a voice said in my head.
“I’m sorry, I haven’t read much on Celtic mythology, so I still don’t know who Sage is,” Khalid said.
Lucian handed me his phone.
“Look or don’t, but I found who you were with the clues I have.”
I wanted to know, so I looked down. Thing was, I’d grown up so sheltered, I had a name, but I still didn’t know anything.
“Who was The Morrigan?” I asked.
“A complete badass,” Morgana said. “You have to go way back. From what we know, there used to be several portals between Fairy and this realm. No one knows for sure what happened in Fairy, but people started leaving. They make up the fairy population in other realms.
“Pretty soon there was only one portal between Earth and Fairy. When the fairies gave up their realm, they escaped through that one and ended up in what is now Ireland. History remembers them as an invading race called the Tuatha Dé Danann.
“The Fates eventually gave the Tuatha Dé Danann gods. The Morrigan was one of them, which is why the fairies sense you as kin. She was a God of War and Death, but not like Khalid is a God of Death. The Morrigan was also involved in fate and foretelling, so she was more of a keeper of death. She could influence battles and know ahead of time who was going to survive.”
Elliot held out his fist.
“She was also a shapeshifter like Loki, so wonder twin power. We can get intosomuch trouble with that.”
“Maybe don’t corrupt my roommate,” Morgana said, poking him.
Petros just yawned.
“Basically, if the Morrigan is back, we’re eitherallfucked, or whatever nastiness got reincarnated and brought here is fucked. It’s probably a combination of both until someone wins.”
“You’re telling meallof this depends on me?”
No pressure, because I wasn’t even sure how all this new magic worked, and the first time someone died around me, it completely knocked me on my ass.
“No,” Morgana said. “Weallgot reincarnated for a reason. It’s up to all of us. The students on the supernatural side are going to help, too. Some of them might not like us because you’re never going to be liked by everyone, but theywillhelp. The students on this side will, too, even the ones history might tell us were bad. We weren’t around then, and there are two sides to every story. We just have to figure out which ones are bad inthislife.”
Khalid was still holding me, so I couldn’t look up at him. I knew he had his suspicions about Mazen. I had mine with Lola. I just wasn’t voicing mine because I felt uncomfortable even having them because of how badly she’d been beaten.
Liam finally groaned and sat up.
“Why do I feel like I've been punched in the head?”
Petros started laughing.
