#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.

towards the sky, the

Thank you.”

words even fainter now than they were before. “Even

I nod, understanding, committing to

magic was here

fades until it’s just…a

Sinclair asks, staring

you see?” I ask,

shaking his head at me. “See you plunge into

explain, and when he continues to stare at me I let out

“She showed you more!?”

nod slowly. “She knew I was upset when the vision ended with Jesse in darkness. So, she showed me him as an

scowls at me and then glances up at the moon, as if he wants to get mad now but he’s a little too scared of her for blasphemy. “Well, that hardly

his shoes, “have warm dry feet.

at me almost despite himself, shaking his head as he wraps Jesse up tightly in his blanket. The baby’s face is peaceful now, his eyes starting to drift shut.

arms when he offers him to me, probably knowing that

leave it to you,” Sinclair sighs, wrapping a warm arm around my shoulders. “Come on. Let’s go get you into

on his promise and comes out of Cora and

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

say on a sigh, “it’s

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

hostess of course, and she made sure that everyone was happily settled in the house with food and drink so Jesse’s celebration could

just as worried, though he’s

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

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