From Slave To Queen (Athena and Michael) novel Chapter 109

Chapter 109

Cassian

As soon as I board one of the ships heading toward the Wasteland, I feel Drystan flitting around me, moving from side to side, looking for the right moment to speak. 1 bark orders here and there to the Purebloods in charge of the sails and keeping us on course. In the holds, there are others- many Diluted who remain loyal to me. Ank emerges from the flame of the candle, catching my full attention.

“What did you see?” I ask immediately.

Her flames turn a bluish hue. She shakes her head from side to side and covers her face with her little hands.

“Ank.”

“It’s terrible, Cassian.”

Her voice fades just as much or more–than her flames, and my mind begins to conjure up thousands of grotesque images. A knot forms in my throat, and I struggle to swallow properly

“Explain,” I demand, my voice choked,

They have her in a cell. I clench my fists- “They’ve put something on her.. a kind of muzzle over her mouth.”

“What” exclaim.

“It hurts her, Cassian. I saw it in her eyes–whatever that thing is, it’s causing her pain

I hadn’t realized I was gripping the ship’s railing until I hear it splintering in my hands. I look down and see how my fingers have sunk into the wood and are covered in blood. Drystan steps forward, places himself next to me, and reats his hand on my shoulder as if that could calm me right now, I think only once before this, something in my life had turned my vision completely red and made my thirst for blood take on a wholly different meaning than usual.

“I don’t understand.” I say through gritted teeth. “Why are they doing this?”

Drystan clears his throat beside me

“I think I might have some answers.

I turn toward him, still gripping the wood beneath my fingers–though I doubt I could let go without destroying something else. I narrow my eyes, waiting for him to speak.

“Before Evanora slipped away from me, I had the chance to ask some questions and get a few answers,” he explains. “From the beginning, her reasons for coming with us seemed suspicious to me—and I was right in the’end.”

“What do you mean?”

He holds a few seconds of pilence before continuing

“It wasn’t a curse that was making Elara sick–It was her true nature revealing itself. Your presence was awakening it, killing her human side. -He swallows like he’s afraid of how I’ll react- “Naja, as Lilith’s servant, knew it instantly. What they did was completely break the seal that bound her to her human side.

“What? What do you mean her human side?” -My thoughts pile one over another–Elara is human. If you kill that, you, kill

He shukes his head.

“She’s not human, Cassian–If the ground opened under my feet and swallowed me, it might have a similar effect to his words- “Evanora was using her potions to prepare her for the final transition. There have already been small manifestations of her nature–you know this.”

It’s true that there were things that didn’t add up for me–like how she managed to escape by bending the gate at the castle entrance, which is sealed with very strong enchantiments. There was also that time in the forest, when she escaped her captor without telling me exactly how, the sudden change in the taste of her blood, and that sell but significant detail of her resistance to my powers and those of the others, even if she‘ shown some weakness at times by Jetting me into her mind,

I swallow, trying to push aside the knot in my throat and regain composure.

“What is she exactly!

“Shen the daughter of Lilith and the middle god”

The middle god Atarothe

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I’ve never been one to believe in the Ancient Gods, but I do remember the names they were given even if most have been forgotten. It’s said that Atarothz was responsible for judging souls before sending them to the afterlife. People feared him–beyond his judgment—because he could destroy a soul. If there’s anything more terrifying than death, it’s ceasing to exist completely. It’s been a long time since anyone talked about the gods–they’ve almost become a children’s tale that fairies tell their young before bei

I don’t know why the idea that Elara has something to do with him seems like total madness–and yet, I don’t see it as entirely impossible.

I can’t control my reactions. A rough laugh escapes my chest, and Drystan looks at me with panic–filled eyes. He probably thinks I’ve lost the last shred of sanity I had left

“Lilith made her for you.”

That cuts my laughter short immediately.

No”

“Yes, Casalan,” he insists firmly.

nly “Evanora told Elara is the key to our survival as a race

1. me. It’s

‘s written in her destiny to meet you. Lilith conceived her with the idea of you two together.

I don’t want to believe it, I shake my head as if that could erase his last words. Memories overwhelm me, one after another. The pull I felt the night I claimed her–it was fate. It was Lilith pulling the strings, playing with us like puppets. I lift a hand and slam it against the wood again, splintering it further clench my teeth so tightly that I feel my langs digging into my flesh.

I don’t want to

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