Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Mate They Threw Away: Kabanata 201 - Kabanata 210

Sage.I could feel the touch of death on my skin as I stepped into the pit. Echoes of the fallen caressed my ears and I was helpless to block out their cries. I could perceive the smell of something burning as I looked around. It was empty and gloomy.I was standing where Kieran had executed twelve council elders some days ago.“You should have come alone,” Vane’s burning voice echoed as he stepped into the fighting ground. His feet left hot burning prints as he walked towards me and Xena. His left arm was gone but the stump was dripping with hot liquid. I wondered if he was still a werewolf.“Where is Elvira?” I demanded. “You think I am stupid enough to bring her here?” Vane growled.“I am here like you wanted me,” I said. “Where is my sister?” ‘His mind has been wiped clean, I think you should offer it to him in return for your sister,’ Oracle said to me.I noticed that I was not seeing different versions of Vane as I looked at him.“I cannot see different versions of him,” I wh

Sage Something was wrong with Saturn.I noticed it the way you notice a fault line, not because you can see it, but because the ground above it behaves differently. The air around him shimmered, which is a small word for a large and deeply unsettling phenomenon. It wasn’t heat. It wasn’t light. It was more like reality itself was having difficulty agreeing that he was allowed to be standing in it, like two magnets of the same polarity being forced together, the space between them trembling with the effort of something that should not be and yet insistently is.He couldn’t stand still. Not the restlessness of impatience, but something more fundamental. His enormous frame kept shifting, fractions of movements, like a signal cutting in and out. Here, then fractionally less here, then back.“Is there a problem?” I asked.He looked at me, and that terrible crimson smile arranged itself across his face, slow and deliberate, the smile of a creature that has lived long enough to find almost

Sage.I sat by his said on a bronze swanlike chair and watched as he handled his Court. Saturn’s rule was absolute and iron-fisted. There was no room for rebellion or defiance. Even the very air around us bowed to him and showed him respect.I knew that I had to be on my best behaviour because he had my sister’s voice with him. I had seen Elvira using her magic but with Saturn casually taking away her voice, it revealed just how powerful he was as a creature.“How were you able to defy my powers?” He asked casually, never taking his eyes off the preceding of his court.I was confused by his question. “I don’t understand.”“When I called you into the void, you called me out of it. How did you do it?” he asked again.Should I lie to him? I was not sure that it was a wise move to reveal Oracle to him.“Magic,” I said with a shrug. “I had your name and I had the location of where I was going. All I needed to do was transfer myself and you to another space.”“But magic requires sacrifice,”

Sage. The killing was a show of power. Saturn wanted me to see just how powerful he was when he killed the winged creature.  I was still in shock from the execution that I had just witnessed. Why did it happen? “Do not look so distraught, Sage. This thing happens more than I can count.” Saturn said as a creature covered in fur and a thin tail came forward. It scurried like a rat and began to eat the headless corpse of Orion. It looked exactly like a rat but in sapient form.  I deducted that maybe it was some sort of scavenger. I gagged as I wa

Sage.It was the first time that I had seen Dominic look so stricken and it made me uneasy. Before I could ask what was wrong an alarm rang out. It was so loud that I was sure the whole of Silver Crest heard it. “We are under attack,” Kieran said as he joined us. “Who dares?” he ignored me but he had an angry scowl on his face.  “It is coming from the west wing of the territory.” Dominic said. “A large number of the Rejected are swarming through the settlements.” “Do we have an exact number?” Kieran asked.