Chapter 415
Lanie
“No!” Ste’smand rang throughout the vi like a p of thunder.
It was enough to stop my grandfather in his tracks. He took a couple of steps back, a hand on his
chest. He looked so astounded and affronted that I couldn’t help myself. I burst into a loud round of
guffaws.
“She’s stronger than you are,” I told him proudly.
Mchi’s lip curled. “She wouldn’t even be a Celestial if it weren’t for me.”
“The moment you reveal to the High Council that you know their game, you push them to attack. And
you’re not ready to face that,” Ste said. “Are you ready to listen to me?”
“I need a drink.” Mchi strode to his bar cart and poured himself a tall ss of red fluid from a carafe.
He drained it quickly and poured another.
took my seat again on the couch. “Tell us everything we need to know, honey.”
Ste linked her fingers together in front of her and bowed her head for a moment. I was learning to tell
what was going on with her. How she needed moments to process the information in her mind.
It took only a few seconds, but I had a feeling she’d worked through an almost infinite number of
connections and scenarios before she looked back to me
In that moment, my heart ached for the burdens my daughter faced. Yet, there was no denying my
pride
and my awe. Ste hadn’t been on this earth very long, but she’d already made such a difference.
“Yes, yes, get on with it,” Mchi said in a bored tone.
Ste didn’t seem to take offense, although I did on her behalf. My grandfather was a really arrogant
pain in the a ss sometimes, and that was saying something, considering the Alpha males I was mated
to.
“Gabri was never on the side of the High Council, no matter what her husband did or wanted. They
all knew it, and, even though they were hell bent on keeping the knowledge of any other supernaturalsN?velDrama.Org holds this content.
away from- their next generation, they had connections with witch kind.” Ste crossed to the bar cart
and poured herself a drink from the jug of water.
She also got one for me, which she pressed into my hand. “Drink, Mother.”
+hadn’t realized how thirsty I was until she said something, and I c hugged the water down. Ste sat
next to me on the couch again. She heaved a heavy sigh, and put my arm around her shoulders.
done.
“Take your time, honey,” I told her, even though I was desperate to discover what the High Council had
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“After the Great Wars, the High Council knew it was possible for them to lose control again, no matter
how hard they clung to it. No matter what atrocities they nned or put into ce. They wanted a
failsafe.
Some guarantee of protection, and of course they couldn’t request it from the Moon Goddess.
Everything they did was performed outside of her light.” Ste finished her water and put the ss on
the
coffee table.
“And Orion offered them Gabri as that protection? How?” I asked her.
“Because they knew that Gabri would be on any side that opposed them. They had a powerful
warlock
integrate her with a third eye,” Ste said.
Mchi actually gasped. “That’s-
“Don’t say impossible,” I cut in. “You’ve been dering that nothing she tells us is possible when
clearly,
all of it is.”
Ste smiled at me. “He has a reason to be incredulous. Integrating a third eye into anyone, much less
an
unknowing and likely unwilling subject is a task even the most powerful warlocks and witches would
struggle
with.”
“Yet, they managed,” Mchi said.
She nodded. “They killed the warlock, immediately after, and the High Council members who found him
are also dead. So there’s nobody alive who can remove it from her.”
“What does the third eye do? I assume you’re not talking about an actual eye,” I added, thinking that
surely
I’d have seen it if Gabri had another eye on her face.
“It’s internal, yes. It allows anyone who has a scrying tool connected to it to see what the third eye
sees.
“A mirror, a crystal ball, a pool of water. Even a ss of wine can be a scrying tool,” Mchi said, sin
was obvious I didn’t know what she was talking about.
For once, he didn’t sound smug or patronizing about it.
“Exactly,” Ste said.
“So, they can see whatever Gabri is seeing by looking at this scrying tool?”
“Which gives them ess to most anything here in Brightsky,” my grandfather added. “Of course,
Gabri
hasn’t been given permission to visit any of our heavier secured areas…”
“But she could see the spiders,” Ste said. “And so far, that’s been enough. If they manage to kill
enough
of them, they’ll be able to do whatever else they want.”