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“I knew your mate looked familiar; I couldn’t place her at first,” Kaif growls. “What was she thinking?” His growl suddenly turns into a roar.
“Kaif?” I ask worriedly, and he looks at me. I glance at the portraits on the wall above each bed. “Twins, I believe this may be where the Gemini twins originated, not with Celeste, as I thought,” Kaif murmurs.
“I don’t follow,” I say, but Kaif is too busy reading the etchings on the walls. This bedroom reminds me of a shrine. “I thought Luna was Hades’ only child?” I ask.
“I thought the same thing,” Kaif admits, making me look at him.
Moving closer to the portraits, I read the names. The boy’s name was Erobos, and the girl’s was Stellara. That much I can make out, but the writing after it, I can not.
“What’s this saying?” I ask, pointing to the smaller writing on the portrait where their names are.
“Just the origins of their names. Erebos: The god of darkness and shadow. Stellara: meaning star, and the concept of the night sky,” Kaif answers me.
“What did you mean when you said how she could be so stupid?” I ask him.
“I meant Celeste, Stellara, the girl I recognize her,” Kaif admits, looking away, but he doesn’t clarify. Instead, he turns, pulling me out of the room.
“Wait, are you going to explain?” I ask.
“No!” he growls, stalking off. “Aren’t we here for answers, like where is Hades? How do those kids link to the Gemini curse? Why did the ghosts try to kill my mate? What fuck, Kaif! I did not just come to hell for no fucking answers!” I snap at him.
Kaif goes from calm to savage in an instant when he turns on me. “You want answers. Well, I don’t have all of them. I only know what Celeste told me, which appears to not be much!”
“But you recognized that girl. She has the same eyes as Temperance! Don’t bullshit me, Kaif, you know something!” he snarls, looking at the room behind me.
“I can’t say for sure,” he answers. My brows furrow in confusion.
“I don’t think it was Hades that started this curse. After seeing what’s in that room, I don’t think he was the bad one.”
“He cursed his own family!”
“Hades wanted his daughter and his mate. That means he was willing to give up his wife for her, but I think him coming after Luna may have just been the tip of the iceberg, so to speak.”
“How so?”
“Because that girl on the wall? She is the same girl Celeste sacrificed to create the daggers. I think Celeste killed Hades and Persephone’s daughter,” Kaif admits, and I stare at him in horror.
“But the daggers were created after he took Luna,” I remind him. Kaif nods.
“Correct, but I think I know what truly started it. Celeste was mad when she learned Hades was already married. I think she cursed his twins. I think those twins were the first Geminis.”
ChapterFifty-One
Eziah
I stare at him dumbfounded as we walk back the way we came. Pondering his words, I try to make everything fit, but it's like trying to put a puzzle together with the wrong pieces. We are missing something, something crucial because even with all this information and the uncanny resemblance to Stellara and Temperance, it still makes no sense to me.
“So what now?” I ask, hoping Kaif can shed some more light on this entire situation.
“Well, for one, we have a funeral to attend, secondly we need more information and the only place that information will be found is the Moon Goddess realm.”
I nod in agreement. “If there was information there, it would have to be in the grimoire of Celeste, right?” I ask Kaif.
“Or the fountain of the past, unless you can track down my brother. He was Celeste's right-hand man, until he went missing,” Kaif says. I stop in my tracks.
“I thought you were the only warlock in the coven?” I ask him and he sighs. “It was because he went missing. Celeste sent him on a goose chase he never returned, haven't seen him since no matter how many times I’ve returned,” he tells me.
“But if he were Lycan he would have reincarnated, so he’d have to be in the fountain of vessels somewhere.”
