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Authors: Dahlia L. Summers
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would have angered Lucifer into sealing you away the second time. If you hadn’t met that scheming little grey-eyed mortal, there would have been nothing to anchor you down. You would have gone insane.”
“I would rather lose my sanity and not know it than be insane and know it. Do you know what it’s like for me to look into those grey eyes knowing that all she could ever see in me is a cruel and vindictive beast? She asked me if I was too ambitious in wanting to control her fate as though there was some other way for me to hold on to something that was never meant to be! If it was possible, I wish I had never…” Those grey-blue eyes were haunting him again. He could smell the sweet scent of jasmine nectar and feel the warmth of her soft lips on his even when there was no physical reality. “I wish I had never…” But he couldn’t finish what he thought he wanted to say. A small part of him feared that if he had finished the sentence, it would come true.
“I had no idea that was how you felt,” the oracle said as she exhaled. “Seeing the future is like reading the pages of a history book before it is written. Perhaps, I had made a miscalculation. In that case…” The Oracle grabbed the white queen into her fist and then angrily swiped all of the other pieces off the board. The pieces flew off the table and scattered on the ground. “I am defeated. You are not the variable I was looking for. Return to your home and forget what you’ve seen and heard here.”
“You have not revealed to me what is to become of Amara’s fate.”
The Oracle was looking down at the white queen in her hand with a heavy expression. “It no longer has anything to do with you. You are not the variable I was looking for.”
“What does that even mean?”
“There is nothing left I can do. I did all that I could, but I still failed her. I truly thought you could save her.”
Noctis grabbed the chess piece from her hand and tossed it aside. “I am not a very patient man, and I have never had a knack for games, so tell me in as few words as possible: what is to become of my bride?”
She lifted her chin and looked directly into his eyes. “Do you care for her?”
His patience thinned. “Answer me!” he bellowed.
“Her mortal life will end on her 23 rd year because Death will not let her live to see her 24 th birthday. He will not stop until she is dead, but she cannot die by his hands because he has no jurisdiction over the living. If the emissaries from the Realm of The Dead should fail to take her life before the day of the solar eclipse, she will inherit a dark power like none you have ever seen. She will have all of the powers of the dead to wreak havoc on the living. She will not be herself anymore, but the very manifestation of plague and pestilence and famine. I tried to keep that man away from her, but he still found her. I tried to have him killed but he always managed to elude me.”
“Who?”
“He is the one who would give her this dark power… this devastating curse. He would have been her lover in another reality, but I interfered. I arranged for my daughter to meet the homeless Elizabeth in the event that Amara and the Necromancer should meet. Destiny had been altered but not changed.”
“Who is this man?”
“Can’t you guess?” the Oracle asked.
He contemplated and could only think of one person. “ The Necromancer? ”
“You won’t be able to kill him. He’s not a variable that can be changed. Even Death himself is not having any luck with it. That is the reason why Death is aiming at my daughter.”
“Are you saying that if I could get rid of the Necromancer, Death would not pursue my bride? Do I have your word on this?”
“It is too late for that,” she repeated the first sentence she had said to him . “You really should not have left your home today.”
He had always hated talking to indirect people, but he was skilled at reading between the lines. Something didn’t feel
“I would rather lose my sanity and not know it than be insane and know it. Do you know what it’s like for me to look into those grey eyes knowing that all she could ever see in me is a cruel and vindictive beast? She asked me if I was too ambitious in wanting to control her fate as though there was some other way for me to hold on to something that was never meant to be! If it was possible, I wish I had never…” Those grey-blue eyes were haunting him again. He could smell the sweet scent of jasmine nectar and feel the warmth of her soft lips on his even when there was no physical reality. “I wish I had never…” But he couldn’t finish what he thought he wanted to say. A small part of him feared that if he had finished the sentence, it would come true.
“I had no idea that was how you felt,” the oracle said as she exhaled. “Seeing the future is like reading the pages of a history book before it is written. Perhaps, I had made a miscalculation. In that case…” The Oracle grabbed the white queen into her fist and then angrily swiped all of the other pieces off the board. The pieces flew off the table and scattered on the ground. “I am defeated. You are not the variable I was looking for. Return to your home and forget what you’ve seen and heard here.”
“You have not revealed to me what is to become of Amara’s fate.”
The Oracle was looking down at the white queen in her hand with a heavy expression. “It no longer has anything to do with you. You are not the variable I was looking for.”
“What does that even mean?”
“There is nothing left I can do. I did all that I could, but I still failed her. I truly thought you could save her.”
Noctis grabbed the chess piece from her hand and tossed it aside. “I am not a very patient man, and I have never had a knack for games, so tell me in as few words as possible: what is to become of my bride?”
She lifted her chin and looked directly into his eyes. “Do you care for her?”
His patience thinned. “Answer me!” he bellowed.
“Her mortal life will end on her 23 rd year because Death will not let her live to see her 24 th birthday. He will not stop until she is dead, but she cannot die by his hands because he has no jurisdiction over the living. If the emissaries from the Realm of The Dead should fail to take her life before the day of the solar eclipse, she will inherit a dark power like none you have ever seen. She will have all of the powers of the dead to wreak havoc on the living. She will not be herself anymore, but the very manifestation of plague and pestilence and famine. I tried to keep that man away from her, but he still found her. I tried to have him killed but he always managed to elude me.”
“Who?”
“He is the one who would give her this dark power… this devastating curse. He would have been her lover in another reality, but I interfered. I arranged for my daughter to meet the homeless Elizabeth in the event that Amara and the Necromancer should meet. Destiny had been altered but not changed.”
“Who is this man?”
“Can’t you guess?” the Oracle asked.
He contemplated and could only think of one person. “ The Necromancer? ”
“You won’t be able to kill him. He’s not a variable that can be changed. Even Death himself is not having any luck with it. That is the reason why Death is aiming at my daughter.”
“Are you saying that if I could get rid of the Necromancer, Death would not pursue my bride? Do I have your word on this?”
“It is too late for that,” she repeated the first sentence she had said to him . “You really should not have left your home today.”
He had always hated talking to indirect people, but he was skilled at reading between the lines. Something didn’t feel
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