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Imove swiftly, running upstairs to the altar room and laying Marabella on a table, searching for the right grimoire. I hear footsteps on the stairs as I start ripping grimoires from the shelves. “Kaif! What are…” Dominic doesn't finish.
“No, the other grimoire,” Kyan snaps in my head and my eyes move up to the shelf above.
“Kaif!” Dominic urges.
“I'm bringing her back,” is my curt response.
But Dominic's voice is filled with a cautioning tone, “You don't know what state she'll be in,” he warns.
“I don't care,” I shoot back, a dangerous edge to my voice.
My fingers brush against an old tome, and an idea forms in my mind. A way to bring her back. But it's dangerous, forbidden. I remember Hades, and how he brought his son back by linking his son's life force to his sisters. The memories fuel our determination.
Light flickers uncertainly as the storm outside rages, shadows of ancient beings shift on the walls, as the weight of a thousand years of history fills this room. Grabbing Marabella, I lay her lifeless body in the middle of the pentagram on the floor, then turn back to the table, and start flicking through the pages of one of the grimoires.
The room is thick with tension. Dominic's voice pierces the silence. “You bring her back, you don't know what state she'll be in.”
I tighten my grip on the aged book in my hands. “I don't care, I won't let her die.”
“She is dead! Your grandmother, Kaif! The rabbit, she won't be the same. I can't let you do this.” I could hear the desperation in Dominic's voice, but Kyan and I are beyond reasoning.
I angrily pull another book down, flipping through its old pages, searching for a way, any way, to reverse this nightmare. Dominic's pleading eyes meet mine. “Magic has limits, Kaif. Some things we shouldn't meddle in. It's unnatural.”
And his words make me snap, “I'm unnatural!” The weight of my desperation building. “I can't lose her. Not her.”
Kyan and I, we both feel our souls rotting inside. Without Marabella, life is a void and if we can't feel her, we don't want to feel anything whatsoever.
Dominic reaches out, trying to comfort me, but I smack his hand away. His voice is soft but stern, “Kaif, you know you shouldn't do this.” When he changes tactics, calling out for his son. “Kyan, reason with him, you know the consequences of doing this,” Dominic says.
I chuckle, the sound almost unhinged. “Who do you think suggested bringing her back here? We don't care what state she comes back in, we'll take care of that later.”
Dominic's voice took on a desperate tone, “What about what Marabella would want?”
“Marabella is not here, and given our cursed bloodline, God knows where she is!” I yell, frustration boiling over. My fingers flip through pages rapidly, looking for the right spell. When I catch Dominic eyeing one of the spells, I stop at it.
“No, not that one,” he warns, but I am too focused on the book in front of me.
“Jonah, get over here! Go get Eziah!” I call out.
“You need something better, something…” Dominic trails off, scanning the book.
“Life force energy spell,” I murmur.
Dominic looks at me puzzled. “What?”
I explain, recalling how Hades brought back his son after Celeste had killed him.
“Hades tied his son's life to Stellara, making them demigods, not full gods. That's why Hades left them in this realm.”
Dominic's brow furrow, “Eziah isn't a God. He's only a demigod. You'd be turning them into ordinary wolves, ending the Gemini line.”
I know he's right. “Forget Eziah, I know what I'll do.” My mind races, trying to figure out how, without erasing that part of her.
I shake my head. Dominic's eyes widen, “What are you doing?”
“I'm tying her to me,” I declare, grabbing a dagger. As I start carving a sigil into my chest, I can sense their eyes on me. I then turn to Marabella, ripping open her shirt. Jonah steps forward in protest, grabbing my wrist.
“What are you doing?” His voice is full of disbelief.
