#Chapter 304 – The Goddess’s Light

Cora

I’m a little out of breath when I finally catch up with Roger and Rafe, having had to work hard to keep up with his long wolf stride.

“Rude,” I say when I finally come to a stop next to them. “You couldn’t have waited for me?”

“I’m being rude?” Roger says, raising his eyebrows at me in disbelief. “Cora, you’ve been nothing but unpleasant since the moment we stepped into the forest –”

I open my mouth with a little squeak of protest but Roger just rolls his eyes and ignores me, going on anyway. “This is supposed to be a sacred experience for Rafe and for us and you’ve done nothing but moan and complain. So yeah, forgive me if I wanted to get away for a moment and concentrate on the magic of this place

“Oh whatever,” I mumble, reaching out my arms so that he can hand me the baby.

“No

from you

way,” Roger retorts, holding the baby closer to his chest and turning a little away from me. “You don’t get to hold the baby now that we’re at the pool

“Yes I do!” I cry, “the priestess gave him to me!”

“I’m his godparent just as much as you are

“(

light from the pool, and Roger and I turn to it, surprised, both of our mouths falling open. I don’t know how I know it but…well, somehow, I get the sense that the

step closer, a little embarra*sed. Honestly, it never occurred to me that my behavior

being…well, a little freaked out, suddenly. We’re both

deep breath, then, nodding to him, and start to say that words that

pool. “We bring

your grace,” Roger continues, his own resonant voice

the full moon itself, beaming brilliantly down on us from above.

Because she is here, now, with us – ready to meet her

developed well enough yet – but he’s certainly curious. I put my hands out for him and this time Roger does hand him

heart fills to see Rafe looking up into the sky, to see the light surrounding him as it falls from the

reverent. “His parents, Ella and Dominic, have asked us to bring him

and at the moonlight. It’s a beautiful moment, introducing the child to the world and to all the magic within it. I open my mouth to say something, to tell

a quick

the white light of the moon, likewise trying to make it out. “If

trembling a

a movie projected into smoke in the air. Instead, it’s…felt as much as it is

still young.- running across a battlefield, fear on his face but courage in every line of his

his hands, which he slowly lifts to place on the girl’s head as well. She smiles up

Ella, and more of their children – and a light–haired boy I don’t know, just about Rafe’s age- and more children, so

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