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Elyssa pshawed "My father always told me to take the number of overt actions by a spawn, multiply it by a hundred, and the ansould be a closer estimate to the truth"
"Every action is a thread, Te the thread is another branch to be explored, another avenue to take I know people who believe the direct path to a goal is the shortest, but reat deal If the direct path is through stone, why not ask a mason to chip it away?"
"Or dyna at Nyles
"Why are you convinced Justin is in danger?" Elyssa asked "Giveme back at the table"
"It’s nonsense," David said "My dear sister believes there’s a conspiracy--"
"Not a conspiracy, a foreseeance," Vallaena said, her eyes burning bright "A possible interpretation of a future to coave her a shocked look which she returned while Nyles blanched
Vallaena groaned and actually looked as if she ht have just thrown up in herafter this conversation" She made a circular motion over her heart with her left hand and pressed the palainst her chest
"Because you accidentally talked directly to your brother?" Elyssa wanted to slap them both silly "Drop the stupid act and join this century, people" Before Vallaena could launch into another culture lesson, Elyssa spoke "You said a ’foreseeance’ Do you really believe in those things?"
The other woolden lock from her eyes and leaned forward "No Or at least nottrue before our very eyes"
"Do you have a copy?"
"No I don’t even know the full text"
"Youme" Elyssa snorted "All this fuss and you don’t even know the full text?"
"Elements in the Conclave have kept this secret for nearly two decades It was only by luck I learned of it"
Elyssa felt the urge to get up and walk away This was a complete waste of time Foreseeance was the official ter sound more realistic In the old days, Templars had collected and researched prophecies, back before the Templar Scholars left the order because they abhorred the violent hts It was all part of a plan to keep catastrophic disasters fro to history class, they hadn’t stopped a thing because none of the prophecies came true
And now, a very powerful spawn see true And that Elyssa’s boyfriend was involved Vallaena wasn’t just so everyone about the end of the world She was sos happen What if she decided to kidnap Justin since neither Elyssa nor David would give Vallaena per away, Elyssa needed to point this dangerous missile in another direction Convince her someone else was involved
"Tell me what you know"
Vallaena looked at David He nodded
"Very well The foreseeance speaks of a half-da in the name of a dead prophet This youth will make unlikely alliances and tame the hearts of natural ene or the Reone over the edge Nothing in those words pointed at Justin Unfortunately, there wasn’t enough in what Vallaena knew for Elyssa to twist and redirect to so half-damned means half-spawn?"
"It is a co a lock of golden hair, "though we Daemos do not consider ourselves damned In fact, we consider ourselves to be rather blessed"
"How can you be so certain this points to Justin? Surely there are a million other interpretations"
"Daevadius--David is alreadywill it be before Justin is marked and dealt with?"
Elyssa shook her head "David’s deathoff the Conroys"
"What about Justin’s friends?" Vallaena said, her eyes alight with fervent belief "He is friends with a sorcerer, a felycan, and you, his mate, are a dhampyr and a Templar The foreseeance speaks of ’unlikely alliances’ Surely the ’half-damned’ and ’unlikely alliances’ identifiers are enough to at least point to Justin"
"Why do you care? Even if it is about Justin, ould soer in the air "Oh, I get it You’re afraid of losing your place in the world if this prophecy is right and the world is remade"
"My reasons are my own, Templaras, and I would not expect you to understand them"
"See?" David said "It’s nonsense I think she wants Justin so she can controlback into the family, much to the amusement of our father"