#Chapter 487- Mothers and Fathers

Ella

“Ella, you can’t just demand

But I glare at Sinclair, slicing my hand through the air and shaking my head as I realize that he can’t hear what I’m hearing.

And the first thing that comes to my ears…

Is a laugh.

“All right, little daughter,” a soft voice says, and I instantly recognize it as my mother. “I stopped there for a reason, but if you get out of my pool, I’ll give you one more.”

I narrow my eyes at the moon but do as the Goddess bids, stepping out of the pool.

“I ended there because I do not know the outcome,” she says, her voice sorrowful. “His mission will be…his own. But, I do know this…”

And I reach out and put a hand on Sinclair’s arm, very tense. I gasp a little as a new vision forms very fleeting, very brief –

But in it, Jesse is an old, old man wrinkles crinkle around his eyes as he smiles down at a child in his arms

His grandchild, or maybe his great- grandchild or maybe not a child of his blood at all, but certainly one he loves very, very much –

It’s gone as soon as it comes, but it’s enough.

Jesse – he lives. And it’s enough.

eyes turned up now towards the sky,

Thank you.”

than they were before. “Even if you don’t trust this world, or me,

I nod, understanding, committing

magic was

fades until it’s just…a lake,

happened?” Sinclair asks, staring down at me with

I ask, desperate

“See you plunge into the pond yelling at the

stare at me I

“She showed you more!?”

upset when the vision ended with Jesse in darkness. So, she showed me him as an old man, holding a

me and then glances up at the moon, as if he wants to get mad now but he’s a

down at his shoes, “have warm

as he wraps Jesse up tightly in his blanket. The baby’s face is peaceful now, his eyes

his godmother,” I say, grinning and taking the baby from Sinclair’s arms when he offers him to me, probably knowing that

sighs, wrapping a warm arm around my shoulders. “Come

good on his promise and comes out of Cora and Roger’s closet, tossing a pair of fluffy socks

right, Ella,” Cora says, frowning down at me with her baby in her

say on a sigh, “it’s not

out of the forest and went totally still. We tried to put on a good show, ensuring the group of all the wonderful things we saw which is true! – but Cora didn’t say much at all, ushering everyone into the waiting vans so that we could all get back to the house

made sure that everyone was happily settled in the house with food and drink so Jesse’s celebration could continue, but I could tell: the entire

though he’s doing a bit better playing it

it’s all right, Cora,” he says, putting a hand on

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