Alaric answered the call. “Okay, my love. Okay. Come here. Come here.” He tugged on her shoulder to pull her down onto his chest, and he made sure he had a firm grip on Conri’s mark. Kai responded a moment later. “Yeah, okay, darling. We got you.” He committed to holding Conri’s mark. Thea let go
Someone knocked on their bedroom door early to drop off their mourning clothes Doris had made for them. Thea’s mourning dress was black with metallic silver and a little bit of turquoise. Conri’s mark was on full display. Kai’s and Alaric’s were on partial display. Their clothes were plain black sui
“Our queen won’t be joining us here this morning or for the immediate future,” Liam said to the people in the packed war room the next morning. “I think we can all agree she needs some time off to grieve. She was past due for some R and R anyway. It gives us an opportunity to get a headstart. We hav
Thea turned around and wrote on the other side of the whiteboard. HOPE 1: LILITH DOESN’T COME WITH HER ARMY TO FIGHT US “We can fight an army,” Thea said. “If they continue the way they’ve been going, one pack at a time, and Lilith doesn’t venture out of the Underworld, we can prepare for that. Y
They called in the witches from far and wide that had experience in the area of trances. They spent days setting up a space for the ritual. They also made a list of things for Thea to ask the goddess. And so when they called Thea in for the ritual, she came to a large circle of witches, meditating
“Wait. Wait. I have to repeat this. I have to remember this.” She spoke loud and clear, repeating what he said word for word, her voice shaking as she shuddered with sobs. She included the stuff about not asking about Lilith if she wanted to remember him too. “Babe, I know you’re in your trance, a
“Even a broken clock is right twice a day,” Thea muttered, looking off to the side. “She’s heard many stories about herself and others, and her concept of what actually happened and what are stories changes from moment to moment.” “Let me get this straight,” Thea said, looking straight at the god
Everyone counted the trance as a success, even if the information was disheartening. Delta team, the Valkyries, and the rest of the war room regulars got busy analyzing the recordings of the Underworld encounter, the trance information and coming up with ideas. Xavier only watched a few times wh