Filed To Story: Destined Bond with My Forbidden Alpha Novel (Alpha Alexander & Selene)
“Summer and Winter both have strong bloodlines, easily traced and very powerful,” she said. “But Autumn and Spring were not so lucky. Their bloodlines were lost in the growing numbers and the frequent and violent leadership changes.
“But that doesn’t mean the bloodlines stopped.”
Selene furrowed her brows.
“You, your brother, and Alexander are the last of the pure bloodlines. You retain strength and power that comes from your connection to the ley lines. But both Talis and I do still have descendants. But the blood has been muddied again and again.
“Even still, some of our descendants are able to touch on certain abilities that came from us. For instance, my last two living descendants. They can heal others.”
“You mean they can use magic?” Selene asked, thinking of the tapestry.
“Not exactly,” Lian said. “The ability is usually presented in a recurring thought, an interest. It’s passive.”
“How do you passively heal someone?” Selene asked.
Lian gave a gentle smirk.
“By giving them your blood.”
Selene gasped.
Lian nodded.
“The reason that your friend Bell and her mother had such unique blood, with the gift of healing, is because Bell, and now her son, hold the last remaining drops of my bloodline. So far removed from the power of the Alpha, this is the only ability she has gained from me.
“Much the same as the descendant of Spring, her bloodline was even further removed, almost extinct entirely. The very last drops were carried by Luna Irina, a younger brother she never knew, and her son.
“Luna Irina never had a son…” Selene commented.
“No, Alpha Gorn never had a son,” Lily whispered under her breath.
Lian cleared her throat before continuing.
“Irina’s sensitivity to nature came from her blood, and in the end, drove her mad. The spring pack was blessed with an affinity for nature, for understanding how everything balances and fits together. People with these abilities could feel the forest’s life in our time. They could listen to the soft thrum of energy that flowed through all living things.
“But Irina’s sensitivity was almost nonexistent, spending most of her life completely oblivious to the sound of nature. It wasn’t until she got closer and closer to the mountain that housed the Dark Queen’s mound that she began to hear it. Her connection very suddenly and intensely grew stronger. She heard the screams inside the mountain. She felt the pain that was housed within that mound.”
“The souls that died there… were never meant to be found,” continued Lian.
“They were criminals and prisoners. Fae from all different clans that had been judged as irredeemable,” Solana added.
“We didn’t know that those spirits still clung to life. We assumed they had rejoined the ley lines like all are meant to do,” said Talis. “But when the chamber was opened, we felt them, and so did Irina. We don’t know exactly what happened, only that something changed her the day she found the tree.”
Selene remembered Alpha Cain’s journal and how he had said that Luna Irina acted differently after they found the chamber.
“I went to her sometime later. I told her to keep Cain away from the chamber at all costs,” Talis continued, looking away sadly. “I didn’t realize then that she had already been infected with the Dark Queen’s energy.”
Selene thought of the journal entry that talked about Irina having attacked Cain.
“Why did you need to keep Cain out?” Selene asked. There had to be something more to their reason for keeping him away.
“Because his blood was pure,” Solana replied. “Irina was infected by the Dark Queen, but her fae blood was so muddied and faint that it took years for her to hear the call. Cain, if he had approached that tree, she would have sensed him and penetrated his heart. The Dark Queen would have used his blood to resurrect herself and pierce the barrier between her tree and the ley line.”
“Then what about Irina?” Selene asked. “From what I know, she went mad and killed herself after this… so what happened to her?”
Talis took a deep breath.
“As I said, I didn’t know at the time that she was infected… But when I returned to her, she begged me to stop the voices, to ask the Goddess to cleanse her. So I did try,” Talis sighed. “But it was too late. The Dark Queen had already gotten her claws deep into Irina’s mind and body.”
Selene took a deep breath.
“So, she killed herself…to stop it?” she asked.
“She did…” Talis nodded.
“She tried,” Solana corrected.
Selene furrowed her brows.
Talis closed her eyes and clenched her jaw.
“I’ve told you already,” she sighed. “Irina is gone. The creature that emerged from that mound is not her.”
“It has her face, mostly, and it has claimed her child,” Solana replied with her arms crossed over her chest.
“It used her like a cocoon!” Talis shouted, “but that is not Irina! She died!”
“Then why didn’t we see her soul pass into the ley lines?” Solana growled.
“Because the Dark Queen consumed it.”
Solana and Talis both turned to look back at the one that answered. Talis with a look of concern and confusion. Solana with a look of agitation and curiosity.
“What are you talking about, Lily?” Lian asked.
Lily stepped forward and took a deep breath.
“Loki, toward the end, he had begun to turn on his own troops from time to time. First, he would fatally wound them and then… absorb their souls into himself,” she said sadly.
Lily’s eyes lifted just enough to lock with Solana’s.
“He tried to do it to me…” she whispered. “But Geri arrived before he could finish.”
Solana turned away, her fist clenched into a tight ball.
“Why have you never shared this with us before?” Lian asked, her voice concerned and sympathetic.
Lily gave a half-smile.
“Not the easiest topic,” she said. “And I didn’t know the knowledge had any value at this point.”
Lian nodded in understanding.
After a short silence, Solana spoke.
“Whether it is her or not doesn’t matter,” she said. “The Dark Queen has returned, and her strength is finally enough that she is comfortable making her creatures and abominations.”
“It does matter!” Talis shouted. “If Irina is gone, then even the tiny bit of my power that she had access to will have awakened in another descendant. One that will be able to lead Selene to the location of the way gates and the Spring mound.”
“Why can’t you just tell me where they are?” Selene asked.
“Time is running out,” Lian said, looking into the distance as though she could see something coming. She looked back at Selene. “Will you help us? Will you find and destroy the mounds and the way gates?”
Selene furrowed her brows.
“I… still have a lot of questions. I can’t just–”
“There is no time. The flow is coming back in on itself. Our places in time will be righted. But, your memory of this conversation will be lost to you until you experience it again.”
“Ok…” Selene said, not understanding precisely what Lian was saying. But she knew that she had already agreed to this plan, and frankly, she saw no reason not to. “Yes, I will destroy the mounds and the gates.”
“Good,” Lian smiled. “Very good.”
Selene felt a strange pulsing in the air.
“What is that?” she asked.
The pulsing grew stronger until she felt it pushing and pulling against her skin.
“What is that?!” she shouted.
The intensity grew until it finally snapped at her painfully, knocking the wind from her lungs. She fell to her knees, coughing.
As she regained control of her lungs, a hand reached out in front of her. Selene lifted her head and gasped when she saw Lian, only now she looked at least thirty years older.
“Lian…?” she asked.
Lian nodded and smiled.
“Yes,” she said. “Our times have righted themselves. The past has returned to the Selene that came seeking answers about her mate bond. The present has returned the one that has been sleeping in her bed for far too long.”
“What happened to you?” Selene asked. “How did you age so much?”
Lian gave a soft smile.
“Talis, Solana, and I built this place to preserve our Queen. Because of that, time doesn’t affect us,” she said. “But, when we return to your world, we begin to age. And when we use our powers in your world… well….”
Lian smiled and raised her arms, indicating her current state.
“This….” Selene whispered hesitantly. “Is it because I called you to save Axel from Roman?”
Lian nodded.
Selene gasped, bringing her hand to cover her mouth.
“I’m so sorry… I had no idea. I didn’t even know I could do that….”
“I know,” Lian smiled. “But it is not your fault.”
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