"Laina, we would like to run some tests with you. We do believe that you are a hybrid at this point but we would also like to see proof that you talk to our Goddess the way that you say you do. That is not something that we can just believe without proof." Safiya says."I really do not see why you need any more proof. The fact that I am even alive should be proof enough. What I did to Morden is even more proof. I can fetch her if you would like to ask her yourself." I offer them.I can tell that all of the way down the table the Coven is listening to what is going on between the Council and myself. They are trying to pretend to be preoccupied with their food but in reality they are almost all leaning closer to us to hear better."Morden is still here? Normally when somebody takes down a Wiccan they are outcasted. Why did you keep her here? Aren't you afraid that she is going to try and retaliate?" Viola asks flabbergasted."Not at all. Once you talk to her you will understand that wha
After the Council members make their exit I turn to Elle with a brow raised. She watches the door for a while before turning back to me. We both take a look at the rest of the Coven watching us closely before continuing. I do not want the wrong Coven members to gain information that could be used against me in any way. "You handled that very well. It is quite shocking that they did not attack you the moment that you said you are a hybrid. That is certainly what I had been expecting. I will take this though. This way we have a chance. A chance to prove to them that you are blessed as you are." Elle says. "That is true. I think I might have shocked them too much for them to respond right away. If I allow them to get their bearings then they might change the way that they are handling things. We will just have to try to keep them on their toes at all times." I tell her. She nods at that and does not say any more. I am sure that once I head up to bed she will meet me and we can talk som
"What happened to you Morden?" Simonetta asks sounding outraged."The Moon Goddess took away my ability to use magic. I can feel it but I cannot use it any more." Morden admits with her head bowed.The Council members all exchange glances with each other. They seem completely confounded on how this happened. Nobody has ever had their ability to use magic taken from them before. Not in living memory that is. It is certainly unheard of for it to have happened in some Coven that has been tucked away and left alone for hundreds of years."How did she take away your magic? I have never heard of such a thing." Viola asks."Through Laina. She found that the way that I was running the Coven was not the way that the Moon Goddess wanted it run. She was trained by the Goddess herself and shown how to do it. It happened in the middle of the night after Laina managed to use some of the power bestowed on her to blast through all of our defenses and take on the entire Coven in the middle of the nig
We make it back to my room in silence after we get done listening to the witches for a while. I just stare at Elle in shock. I am not sure what the Council is trying to accomplish. Are they trying to discredit me by saying that I have abandoned the Moon Goddess. Or, are they trying to make it seem as if the Moon Goddess has abandoned them? If that is something that she wanted to do then she would be able to just wipe us all out. She did create us all after all. "It is good that you planted those peepholes. They never thought to check under the vast layers of illusions that you placed before them. If you had not done that then we would have no idea what they were up to in there." Elle tells me."Yeah but to what end? I am not sure what they are trying to accomplish at this point. Are they trying to make me look bad or make our Goddess look bad? Either way what are they trying to get at? Do they want to take me down or is it something worse. Also, did it seem as if the council was divi
After spying on the witches and talking over what we observed, we decide to just call it a night. Instead of heading back to Dante I stay in the house again so that I am with my Coven. I may not feel the bond of sisterhood as strongly as some of the other witches do but I still am a member of this Coven so anything that they have to suffer I have to suffer as well.I have no idea how late they actually kept Morden with them after we left. They had moved to fairy noncosequential items and we did not see the point in staying any longer. I would have liked to have watched what they said to each other after Morden left but since there is apparently a form of communication that they use that does not include actually speaking there was really no point in waiting around.I tossed and turned for most of the night before finally being pulled into the same fathomless chamber that I was pulled into before by the Goddess. This time, it is not as scary as it was before. Instead, I have an idea of
"What are you doing here?" I ask Dante sleepily after a while. "I just wanted you to know that I am here for you. You were sleeping so terribly that I had to do something to help you out. As soon as I got into bed with you you managed to begin calming down. Is there something else that you need me to do?" He asks worriedly.Shaking my head, I try to cuddle even closer to him. That is almost impossible as I was already practically laying on top of him. Still, he laughs slightly as I scrunch as close as possible. Even though I never doubted that he is there for me, having the physical reminder is comforting. I could almost forget that the rest of the world exists when he holds me like this. Even knowing that I have to face the council today, I find it hard to get myself to pull back and really think about what all I have to do today. I have to find a way to learn what Safiya's secret is and put feelers out on the rest of the Council. With the Council divided I have to learn who is sid
Walking downstairs I notice the complete silence before I reach the bottom steps. The witches are not normally loud by any means but they do normally make some noise. Today there is virtually no noise. It is a little disconcerting to be in a house full of women and not hear a peep out of any of them.In the kitchen Morden has made an unlikely appearance as well. She is still wearing the outfit from last night but she is much cleaner than before she went to speak with the Council. It is an improvement to not wrinkle my nose at the smell for sure."Laina, I wanted to speak with you where nobody else would hear me." She says as she rushes over to me."Alright, I am listening." I tell her."No, no. We need to go somewhere else. Do you have somewhere we could speak in complete private that is not in this house?" She asks me.Nodding my head, I grab a cup of coffee and motion for her to follow me. The safest places that I know of are on the pack's land so that is where I am going to take he
I look at Morden carefully to ensure that there are no tricks going on. It seems awfully strange that right after speaking with the Council she is trying to be buddies. I know that she really wants her powers back and that is driving her but is she being honest with me or is she holding out hope that the Council will be able to reverse what I did to her."What is it that you think I should do then? I have a plan in place with Elle already that I am not going to share with anybody else but I would like to know what you are suggesting as well." I tell her."I suggest that you show them what you are really made of. Make sure they know just how powerful you really are. Most of them will find that with the amount of powers that you have there is no way that you are not blessed. By showing them all of your powers you are letting them know that you are not scared of them." She tells me.While that might be true, I also see the downside to this little plan. If I show them all of my powers the