Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
The images now showed a sad woman walking away from the battlefields all alone.
“It wasn’t long after the death of my son that she found out about the baby. She had him in secret since most places viewed her as a pariah for being with child and still unwed. After my grandson, Fynn, was born she fled to England where she raised him under multiple different names. She and the boy continued to live on for hundreds of years.”
The water showed all of this with such detail that I couldn’t? stop the tears that spread across my cheeks. He continued with the story through the end of Ellyria, and then when Fynn mated with his wife. He told them of how the ring continued to pass along the family until it made its way to me even though his grandson had died just the same way his son had, while fighting in a war.
“I want us all to remember the bravery of my son and grandson. And to remember that without them, I wouldn’t have the family here with me that I do now.”
There were cheers and applause all throughout the crowd and I saw Athair m贸r grin broadly. I could tell that whatever was happening, he wasn’t done.
“Now, let me get on with my show.”
With those words, Athair m贸r dove into the wave he was standing on and the water puppets were now gone. I could see him, just barely, as he moved through the water. When he leapt out of the water as if he had jumped off of something, he was chased by a giant dragon made of water.
A moment later he landed on the dragon’s back and started to ride it around the theater. The next thing I saw was him leaping back into the water while the dragon continued to fly through the air. The next minute he was back out of the water on the back of another dragon.
When the first dragon reared back like it was going to roar or blast or something, I found out what the dragon could do. There was a beautiful arc of water that went from one side of the theater to the other and rained tiny droplets of water down on everyone. The two dragons started to send that arcs one after the other, soon a rainbow had formed in the reflection of the light from below.
“Riviana! Joaquin! Noah! Nikki! Carter! Emmalee! Wesley! Eve! Samuel! Lila! Come up here.” Athair m贸r yelled as he got closer to us all. Excitedly we all stood up with the babies in our arms.
The dragon seemed to grow a lot of extra arms so that it could pick us up, the only ones that seemed scared were Grandfather and Noah, they both screamed for a moment before the dragon sat us on its back and flew through the air. This was the best, and the moment that we were on the dragon’s back the water gripped our feet. We were as secure as we could be.
The fear set in for several of the others when we dove straight toward the water, but we broke the surface with a giant bubble of air surrounding us. When we came above the water, we were standing on the water like Athair m贸r had been.
“I show you all once again, my family.”
This time the applause that followed Athair m贸r’s words was a lot louder and filled with excitement. I couldn’t believe what had just happened to us all.
“That was wonderful.” Emmalee exclaimed loudly.
“Truly, I loved it, Athair m贸r.” Nikki shouted.
“Very exciting.” Carter grinned.
“A little scary.” Noah was panting but he was also smiling.
“I think you did amazing.” I grinned at him.
“I am glad that you all loved it..” Athair m贸r looked happier than I had ever seen him and that was saying something since he was happy most of the time.
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Riviana
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We had made it through. It was over. The entirety of the festivities had come to an end, and it was now the end of the Yule celebration. It wasn’t what I had expected, but it had been a lot of fun nonetheless. I wasn’t at all upset that we had come for this visit.
I had a few more meetings with Aunt Glory before it was all done, and like Athair m贸r had suggested I kept the warning from Danu out of our conversations. I did, however, tell her about the blessing that Joaquin and I had received.
“Truly?” She asked the moment that I had mentioned them. “Mother summoned you and your mate?”
“Yes, though I have a feeling that there was some magic in the air during that time that might have caused it.” I blushed and was glad that it was just the two of us at the moment.
“Oh ho, do tell.” She winked at me with a mischievous grin.
“Aunt Glory.” I yelled in disbelief.
“Oh come now, Riviana, we were friends before we knew we were family. We can still have our girl talk, right?” I sighed as I listened to her. She was right, and we had already had some girl talk before.
“Oh, alright. I guess you are right. We’re two queens here right now, not family.”
“That’s it, Riviana my girl, tell me all about it.” The grin on her face was so big I thought it must have been painful. Still, I just told her.
“Well, it happened after the light ball.” I went on to explain it all to her. The way that Joaquin and I wanted each other so frantically that night. The way that we mated in our human and wolf forms and that afterwards we were both taken to the celestial plane for a blessing from Danu.
“I have never been summoned by Mother, not once. Then again, I did have hundreds of years with her before she and all the other Gods and Goddesses moved away from this world.”
“She did say that she can’t meddle in the lives of her children. It’s not allowed. Perhaps that was the reason.” I was paraphrasing here, but I wanted to make Aunt Glory feel better, even if it was just a little.
“Perhaps, it would explain why she has not been there for us. She did come down to collect Sorrel’s body when he died.”
“Glory?” I left off the aunt part so that she might answer me more freely. “How did Sorrel die?”
“He was in a battle and was injured gravely. He normally would have been able to survive, but a piece of the blade he was injured with was lodged within his body, and we didn’t know. The metal poisoned him slowly, and he died from the sickness.”
