“I know it is, because what the seer said is important to the safety of the world,” Rosaline says. “What’s done is done. There’s no sense in worrying about it if she already has creatures going to the nexus to try to kill you.”
“She’s right, love.” Jayden stands from his spot crouched in front of me and sits next to me on the couch.
“Okay then, what did the seer tell you?” I ask.
“You two along with your friend and the wolf will usher in a new era for demigods and shifters alike. There are hard times on the horizon and there will be loss, but if you just endure it, the change will be spectacular,” Rosaline says.
“That’s what’s so important? We’ve heard all this before. I have to endure the trauma and loss for everyone else to thrive.Each race must go through their own transformation and their own war to come out on the other side even better than before. Blah, blah, blah.” I shake my head.
“What was that last part about a war for each race?” Rosaline pales.
“Our seer friend saw too much. He’s the son of Apollo but lately his visions have become chaotic at best and show him too much. He’s struggling with it. He told us each race will have their own war. We thought it meant just in our realm but now I’m wondering if it’s all the realms.” I lean back against the couch.
“There have been rumblings in the village about something dark on the horizon but there is always something with the fae. I chalked it up to gossip and not really important.” Rosaline fists her hands in her lap.
“If this isn’t just about our realm, how do we warn the others?” I ask. “We can’t take the time from our current task to go to all of them and tell them.”
“No, your task is of the utmost importance. None of these possible wars will even come to light if Hermes ceases to exist because the nexus will fall along with the rest.”
“How do we get back so we can complete our task before that happens?” Jayden asks.
Leave it to him to ask the most important question we have to get us back on track. I squeeze his hand, grateful that he is getting us off the topic of the other realms because my brain is spinning with the weight of all the realms on my too young shoulders.
“There is no way back to your realm from here directly. That’s why we don’t currently have a way to send the others back yet.”
“If the seer predicted all of this, then there has to be a way back. She wouldn’t have told you to give us the message toendure if we were stuck here and the worlds all end.” Jayden shakes his head.
“There is a way, but…”
A battle cry cuts her off and the clang of metal on metal sounds from outside the house like a gunshot.
“What in Hades is that?” I jump up from the couch.
It sounded like Raven’s war cry. What is happening? Are my friends okay or did Rosaline trick us?
“Is this some kind of trap.” I glare at Rosaline.
“I don’t know what’s going on,” she mutters and rushes from the room.
“We need to check on our friends,” Jayden says, tugging me to follow Rosaline.
The bright sun nearly blinds me as we race outside to see what the problem is. My eyes adjust to the light and a snarl rips from my throat. I call my weapons as my friends come into view, all in a battle formation.
They’re surrounded by fae males with every manner of weapons. What are they doing? They were supposed to take them to check on the humans. How did this devolve so quickly?
Raven’s sword slices through the air and her magic ripples, covering her in a shield. “Draven, shield up. You and Dax protect the others at all costs.”
“On it.” Draven pools magic in his palms before making a complicated motion with his hands, then a silver shield encases the others in a bubble.
“I refuse to be protected,” Thad barks as he brandishes his trident with a snarl.
“Where is Beth?” Raven roars at Axel. “Did you try to throw her in a cage too?”
“What the fuck?” I yell. “What does she meantoo?”
I glare at Rosaline who’s turned deathly pale. They planned this. They were going to keep us all here even after the bullshit about the seer and ushering in a new era. It was all bullshit.
“I don’t know what’s happening,” she mumbles.
