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Chapter five
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2025-10-07 00:04:11EMILIE
They made me sit for the story, which should have warned me it was going to be bad.
The Alpha Magnus paced while Aurora and Ethan stood nearby looking like they wanted to reach for me but didn't dare. Kai stayed close to my side.
"Three hundred years ago," Magnus began, "a dying oracle spoke a prophecy. A child would be born marked by two moons, born of priestess and warrior blood, with the power to either unite all supernatural realms in peace or shatter them and end everything."
I stared at him. "That's insane."
"That's destiny," the white haired woman Storm said. "Your mother was High Priestess of the Moon Temple, Your father was a warrior from the oldest bloodline. You're something that hasn't existed in a thousand years."
"What am I?"
"We don't know exactly," Ethan admitted. "That's why we gave you to Hawthorne, to keep you hidden until you could control your power."
"Except that didn't work," I said bitterly. "Mrs. Hawthorne is dead and I'm here and apparently there's some evil sorcerer who wants to kidnap me and use my power to end the world."
"Thane Nightshade," a guard Ryker said grimly. "Dark sorcerer he wants to capture you, corrupt your power, and use you to break the seals between realms. Unleash the ancient darkness and rule over the ruins."
The room felt too small. "So I'm supposed to either save everyone or destroy them, and there's a sorcerer hunting me. Did I miss anything?"
"The part where we protect you," Kai said quietly. "Where we help you control your power so you can choose your own path."
"Choose?" I laughed harshly. "How do I choose when I don't even know what I am?"
Storm's eyes suddenly went white, completely white. "She sees," Storm whispered in a voice that wasn't hers. "The broken queen awakens. Two paths before her. Light or shadow. The marked son will be her salvation or her doom"
She collapsed. Kai caught her.
"What was that?" I asked.
"A vision," Ethan said. "She's a seer."
"The broken queen," I repeated. "She called me that."
"It's what the prophecy calls you," Magnus said. "You're all of it, Emilie. Savior. Destroyer. Bridge. What you become is your choice."
I stood up on shaking legs. "I'll stay,I'll learn about my power. But I want real answers. And those answers determime how I make up my mind on me wanting to stop Thane from killing anyone else."
"Agreed, anything you want we will give" Magnus said. "Welcome to Silvercrest, Emilie. Welcome home."
As Aurora and Ethan led me out to show me to a room further along the hallway, I caught Kai watching me with an expression I couldn't read.
It looked almost like guilt and something else.
I was too exhausted to figure out why, all these events has had a toll on me, I hadn't even had the time to mourn my nanny the only person who will seem to understand and comfort me in this situation.
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