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Chapter 416
Lanie
“Is there any way for us to close that third eye?” I asked Malachi and Stella at the same
time.
Malachi frowned. “Without the one who cast the original spell? I have no idea. But then,
I’m not a witch.”
“Can you ask someone? There are, witches here,” I said.
Stella frowned. “Only Braden and Charlotte know that the leadership council has no true
power. If we go to any witch-kind for help with this, Malachi would have to reveal that
everything he’s bragged about is nothing
more than a farce. Besides, it would probably kill her.”
“If she has to die to protect Brightsky, then she has to die,” Malachi stated harshly.
Stella shook her head. “She doesn’t have to die, and I can’t allow you to even attempt her
murder.”
I thought for sure my grandfather would fight her about this, or at least pop off with some
nasty
comment, but all he did was narrow his eyes at her.
I turned to Stella. “Can we block it, then? There must be shields or spells that would work
without hurting
her. She might not even have to be aware of it.”
“Mother, you of all people should know that casting a spell on someone to hide a part of
their nature can
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtonly hurt them in the end.”
“It’s already been hidden from her, hasn’t it? You said she doesn’t know,” I reminded her.
“She means the harm would come in having her find out,” Malachi said. “So long as they
can use her,
Gabriela is a liability to the entire enclave.”
Stella got up from the couch and spun in a slow circle.
She wasn’t moving fast enough to bell the hem of her dress out around her ankles, but it
did, and I
laughed a little to myself. As a little girl she’d often done the same thing, “like a princess.”
I enjoyed that
glimpse of her childhood, but I didn’t cling to it. If there was one thing I’d learned, it was
that holding onto the past was never going to lead to a better future.
“Actually, Malachi, she is our asset,” Stella said as she slowed, stopped, and faced him.
Again, his eyes narrowed. He leaned back in his chair and steepled his fingertips under his
chin. His lips pursed as his brow furrowed.
“How so?” he asked.
“The High Council can only see what she sees in the moment. They can’t control her or
make her go to
look at things they want her to see. But we can. At least, we can control what and who she
has access to.
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It would be simple enough to make sure they only see a carefully curated view of what
goes on here,” she
explained.
“If they have to watch through this third eye using a scrying tool, how do we know that
they’d be watching
at the right time?” I asked.
“They’ll have someone watching all the time,” Malachi said dismissively. “They would
never leave their tool unmonitored, even when she’s sleeping.
it.”
“So they must have seen you, as you are now,” I said to Stella.
She nodded. “Yes. They know I’ve grown. They’ll know I’m a Celestial, too, since you’ve
talked to her about
“If they know so much, what are they waiting for?”
I asked her. “Why haven’t they launched an all-out attack on the enclave already?”
“Brightsky was not their priority until recently.” Stella paused and looked guilty. “When I
was still a child, they didn’t care as much about me, either. Their concerns were the hybrid
testing facility.”
“But now you’ve grown up, and they’ve seen it. Which means they’ll be trying to get their
hands on you.
Which puts all of us in danger,” Malachi snapped.
I thought of what Xander and Mason had told me when we were alone in bed after we first
discovered our daughter was now an adult. They’d told me all about what they’d found out
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmabout the pictures of the newcomers to Brightsky’s portal town, and also about the
missing records and purposefully bricked phone.
All of it made sense now.
“Did the High Council send Aldon to Standard to keep an eye on things, or to infiltrate us
somehow?” |
questioned.
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“It’s still cloudy,” Stella said. “Which means he has not yet decided for himself which path
take.”
“Will feeding Gabriela this curated information help push him into a decision?” I asked her.
g to
“Yes.”
Malachi’s laugh was harsh. “How can you be so sure?”
“Need I remind you,” Stella said, “exactly who I am?”
She rolled her eyes and looked so much like him that I wasn’t sure if she was flat-out
imitating him of
simply had inherited his mannerisms along with the color of his eyes.
“Daddy and Abba don’t need to bother going over any more security protocols with
Charlotte. What we
need to focus on now is making sure that Gabriela begins feeding the High Council exactly
what we want
them to find out.”
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