36. Prophecy

Caterina

“We have never seen this before, and I have had a bad feeling ever since one of our old prophecies came to be: ‘When the moment comes that prey kills predator, the foreign one shall bring forth a union of fated hybrid mates and an age of anarchy.’ This was the death of our Viktor. The rest I was uncertain of until I laid my eyes on your mate and received another prophecy.” She says, then looks at me.

I felt a chill in her stare, not coldness or hatred at all, but I had a feeling she knew what would come next.

“I don’t understand your prophecy,” Kai says, shaking his head. “Who is the foreign one?”

Kaede laughs quietly. “I am surprised that that is what you ask and not who the fated hybrid mates are or what the other prophecy was. You know already, don’t you, Kai?” She says, then walks up to me and places a hand on my forehead.

“She has already received gifts, and a shard of Tiarin’s soul is implanted in hers. You know