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“I swear to secrecy. The Starlight gods are my witnesses,” I swore.
He nodded before beginning. “Elyion is EliaseAnne’s original birth name. When Elias was really young a woman arrived at Miolana and offered the king a chance at a higher, political position with the promise of a higher percentage in the stock markets down on Earthala. King Kingsley would never pass up such an offer, agreeing to the terms with little questioning. The terms included his son would undergo spirit transmutation. It’s similar to what King Aspen did with his son Malik, but from what we’ve gathered so far regarding the case, the King wanted to replace Elyion with another spirit – something stronger and deadlier: a dark fairy spirit.”
I was speechless; my brain tried to roll around the fact Elias’ own father, another king who’d witnessed the end results of King Aspen’s actions, would stoop so low and agree to such terms without caring about Elias’ well-being.
Marcus turned to look at the fireplace, the flames burned away the remaining wood.
“Dark faeries are one of the rarest spirits in the entire galaxy, aside from Vermillion birds. They have a few numbers left living on Miolana. However, they began to disappear which of course, pointed our suspicions to Kingsley and this woman’s experiments. Their hypothesis was that they could implant a dark fairy into Elyion, changing his spirit. After rotations of experimental trials, they succeeded with their final dark fairy – she was only eight cycles. The woman had finally succeeded in altering the spirit species, but when Elias woke up and shifted, Elyion was no longer male, but a female hybrid.”
*Silence*
“Hybrid.” I choked the word out, unable to say another.
“Yes. Half-light fairy, half-dark fairy. It was determined that due to the dark fairy being a female instead of a male and the powerful nature of her spirit; she overpowered Elyion’s male attributes. Thus, his spirit morphed into a girl, EliaseAnne. They couldn’t continue on with their experiment, concluding that they needed a male, dark fairy to attempt to change Elyion back. The problem was risking Elias and Elyion in general, having gone through so many forced experiments led them to being diagnosed with severe PTSD. They both still deal with it today.”
Post-traumatic stress disorder.I knew of such diagnoses from the multiple shifters that experienced such circumstances in the facility – myself included.
I recalled Eli being sick yesterday, running a low-grade fever throughout the night. I’d taken a quick peek when I made my way downstairs to meet Marcus, Kai relaxed on the floor, his eyes closed as Eli slept, a cloth on her face. I smiled at their joined hands, before walking away, not wanting to wake either of them up.
I swallowed the lump in my throat, deciding to confirm my thoughts.
“Is that why Eli can’t stand medical centers?” I questioned, remembering how anxious she looked during my recovery time as they ran tests on her. She tried to hide it during my presence, but it was hard to hide the tremendous amount of fear reflecting in her eyes.
“Yes. She has panic attacks. It’s been awhile since her last major one, but I feel like she had a mini one in her last checkup. Karen said she didn’t look well when leaving, but she insisted she was fine. When she got home she looked horribly pale and almost fainted. I ended up having to carry her to bed and now, the fever she’s experiencing is a common after effect,” Marcus confirmed.
I turned to face the fireplace, allowing my mind to reel over everything he’d just explained.
EliaseAnne is a boy. He was turned into a SHE against his own will thanks to his oh so loving father, who was too greedy to care about the consequences of such altercations.
I could only imagine the scrutiny he experienced growing up through his teen and adult cycles – a teen male shifter with a female spirit. The thought alone was rare and probably still wasn’t accepted.
“That’s why they pretend to be two different people at school.”Midnight proposed; her once monotonous voice filled with grief.
I felt a hand rub my back, my head turning to face Marcus, who was right next to me, his eyes glossy.
“Don’t cry Firefly,” he whispered.
I lifted my hands to my cheeks which were wet with tears. “How can I not? My knight was tampered with like a lab rat for such a stupid, selfish reason as STOCKS! Not only did he have to go through such experiments, so many dark fairies were murdered and are now extinct! If it wasn’t for Midnight and Eli being a hybrid, there would be none. Even if there are a few throughout the galaxy they would stay hidden thanks to one man’s greed. Now EliaseAnne is STUCK as a female for the rest of his life,” I yelled, the anger raged within me, my power began to build.
I rose to my feet and began to pace around the cabin. Marcus watched me cautiously.
“Did his Father not once imagine how life would be for him? The amount of scrutiny and humiliation he’d face! Yet for money and a position of power, he was perfectly fine with selling his son to this devilish woman for her own fucking reasons. And where is he now? Still a fucking King! Where’s the justice!” I roared, the windows shook as the cabin trembled, dust floated down from the rafters.
Marcus rose, approaching me and placing his hands firmly on my shoulders.
“Firefly. Calm down,” he ordered.
I glared at him, Midnight coming forward.
“Calm down? The woman oh wait, scratch that, the man I care about is now resting in bed thanks to his traumatic, fucked up past that will NEVER stop haunting him till he ascends to Starlight, because of his father who’s walking freely and ruling a kingdom! Where’s the fucking justice!” she shouted.
Ryuu came forward to face us, his arms wrapped around my trembling body.
The wind smashed against the cabin as the rain pounded so loudly against the wooden frame, I didn’t think the cabin would survive.
“Midnight, enough. I get your frustration, I really do. I would be one of the first to burn that castle to the ground and torture that man till he begged for Deathpre to take his soul. Even then, I’d make sure he didn’t rest till he received his portion of pain and solitude. But we need every bit of evidence and have to locate the woman and gather Elias’ file. If we’re able to reclaim that, it would be smooth sailing. Your father and other higher-ups he entrusted with the case are looking into it. Please, calm down. The cabin won’t handle this beating much longer,” he begged. The lights flickered on and off.
Midnight retreated, allowing me to take over before I closed my eyes, using Ryder’s meditation techniques to calm the raging inferno that still wanted release.
