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you what you want to make me. You want to keep me with you, fine, but don’t turn me into a monster. Please, Blue.”
“ You and I will share eternity together,” he took a deep breath and stroked a hand down my stomach. “You’re just frightened but that’s normal. I’ll be strong for you. I can take care of you. You’ll be my Queen, give life to my children, and no one will ever hurt you again.”
“ No!” I screamed and sent him a picture of me sitting serenely in bed, breastfeeding a baby. He started in surprise and smiled, his features going soft, his eyes tender. I continued the image with me stroking the infant’s head, then crying out as blood seeped out around its mouth and down my breast. Blue screamed but I continued the images with me pulling the child away to show a wicked set of fangs glinting from its gaping, bloody mouth. I offered the child up to him. Another sacrifice for his bloody altar.
“ One happy little family,” I stared accusingly at him. “Is it everything you expected it to be?”
“ Enough,” he roared. “You’ll not change my mind by showing me twisted lunacy. Our children will not be such as that. Do you think I bled my own mother?”
“ Your powers were different then,” I was shaking but whether it was from rage or fear I couldn’t tell. “You’ve no idea what a child of yours would be.”
“ He would be a god,” he growled.
“ Or a monster.” I made an exasperated sound. “Will I even be able to bear children after you turn me?”
“ Of course you will. How many times do I have to tell you the mortals got it wrong? I'm not offering you death. I'm offering you life eternal. You will be as you are now, only better. Your body will be able to bear children with more ease and absolutely no danger to you.” His jaw clenched but he took another deep breath and calmed himself. “You’ll feel differently once you’ve born them.”
“ So you're telling me there are vampires out there making babies?” I had pictures of happy little vampire families dancing in my head.
“ No,” he sighed and made a dismissing gesture. “Only I have the ability to pass on life so purely. Only with me would you be able to have children. Without me, you'd be in stasis, unable to conceive.”
“ I guess that at least is a relief,” I abandoned my dancing, vampire baby imagery á la Ally McBeal. Ooga chacka, ooga chaka.
“ Enough of this,” his eyes narrowed. “I suspect you're stalling.”
I shivered and started shaking my head. There had to be some other way to stop him. The Nahual! I'd been meditating with my jaguar, ever since I'd discovered her through studying Aztec magic, and I'd been getting stronger and stronger with each meeting. Would she be strong enough to fight Blue?
She had backed down earlier but she'd done so reluctantly, almost as if she were biding her time. I wasn't sure if she could destroy Blue but I was suddenly sure that I could send her down the link between Blue and I and maybe she could find his own Nahual. Maybe we'd be strong enough to become Nahualli, a sorcerer who could control another person's animal twin.
According to Aztec myth, everyone was born with an animal twin but I was pretty sure the “everyone” meant all the humans. There was a chance Blue didn't actually have a Nahual but I was betting that, as an Aztec god, he was influenced by his people's beliefs and did actually carry an animal twin inside him. If not, I was screwed.
I called my Nahual with my need, sending my fear into the depth of my soul. Projecting my magic inward instead of outward, as she had taught me. I saw her clearly, a white jaguar with golden spots and dark brown eyes. Her body was tensed to spring and her mouth hung open on a snarl, she'd been waiting for my call.
She seemed to jump through me, running down the line connecting me to Blue without any prompting from me. In her wake, the butterflies of my Love magic stirred and then rushed to follow her.
“ You and I will share eternity together,” he took a deep breath and stroked a hand down my stomach. “You’re just frightened but that’s normal. I’ll be strong for you. I can take care of you. You’ll be my Queen, give life to my children, and no one will ever hurt you again.”
“ No!” I screamed and sent him a picture of me sitting serenely in bed, breastfeeding a baby. He started in surprise and smiled, his features going soft, his eyes tender. I continued the image with me stroking the infant’s head, then crying out as blood seeped out around its mouth and down my breast. Blue screamed but I continued the images with me pulling the child away to show a wicked set of fangs glinting from its gaping, bloody mouth. I offered the child up to him. Another sacrifice for his bloody altar.
“ One happy little family,” I stared accusingly at him. “Is it everything you expected it to be?”
“ Enough,” he roared. “You’ll not change my mind by showing me twisted lunacy. Our children will not be such as that. Do you think I bled my own mother?”
“ Your powers were different then,” I was shaking but whether it was from rage or fear I couldn’t tell. “You’ve no idea what a child of yours would be.”
“ He would be a god,” he growled.
“ Or a monster.” I made an exasperated sound. “Will I even be able to bear children after you turn me?”
“ Of course you will. How many times do I have to tell you the mortals got it wrong? I'm not offering you death. I'm offering you life eternal. You will be as you are now, only better. Your body will be able to bear children with more ease and absolutely no danger to you.” His jaw clenched but he took another deep breath and calmed himself. “You’ll feel differently once you’ve born them.”
“ So you're telling me there are vampires out there making babies?” I had pictures of happy little vampire families dancing in my head.
“ No,” he sighed and made a dismissing gesture. “Only I have the ability to pass on life so purely. Only with me would you be able to have children. Without me, you'd be in stasis, unable to conceive.”
“ I guess that at least is a relief,” I abandoned my dancing, vampire baby imagery á la Ally McBeal. Ooga chacka, ooga chaka.
“ Enough of this,” his eyes narrowed. “I suspect you're stalling.”
I shivered and started shaking my head. There had to be some other way to stop him. The Nahual! I'd been meditating with my jaguar, ever since I'd discovered her through studying Aztec magic, and I'd been getting stronger and stronger with each meeting. Would she be strong enough to fight Blue?
She had backed down earlier but she'd done so reluctantly, almost as if she were biding her time. I wasn't sure if she could destroy Blue but I was suddenly sure that I could send her down the link between Blue and I and maybe she could find his own Nahual. Maybe we'd be strong enough to become Nahualli, a sorcerer who could control another person's animal twin.
According to Aztec myth, everyone was born with an animal twin but I was pretty sure the “everyone” meant all the humans. There was a chance Blue didn't actually have a Nahual but I was betting that, as an Aztec god, he was influenced by his people's beliefs and did actually carry an animal twin inside him. If not, I was screwed.
I called my Nahual with my need, sending my fear into the depth of my soul. Projecting my magic inward instead of outward, as she had taught me. I saw her clearly, a white jaguar with golden spots and dark brown eyes. Her body was tensed to spring and her mouth hung open on a snarl, she'd been waiting for my call.
She seemed to jump through me, running down the line connecting me to Blue without any prompting from me. In her wake, the butterflies of my Love magic stirred and then rushed to follow her.
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