#Chapter 486- 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.

I breathe, my eyes turned up now towards

Thank you.”

Goddess says, her words even fainter now than they were before. “Even if you don’t trust this world,

I nod, understanding, committing

suddenly, whatever magic was

light from the pool fades until it’s just…a lake, or a pond

happened?” Sinclair asks, staring down at me

you see?” I

he asks, shaking his head at me. “See you plunge into

to stare at me I let out a deep

“She showed you more!?”

knew I was upset when the vision ended with Jesse in darkness. So, she showed me

wants to get mad now but he’s a little too scared of her for blasphemy. “Well, that hardly seems fair,” he murmurs. ”

down at his shoes, “have warm dry

is peaceful now, his eyes starting to

Sinclair’s arms when he offers him to me, probably knowing that I’m upset and want

a warm arm around my

out of Cora and Roger’s closet,

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

told you,” I say on a sigh, “it’s not

tried to put on a good show, ensuring the group of all the wonderful things we saw which is true! – but Cora didn’t

everyone was happily settled in the house with food and drink so Jesse’s celebration could continue, but I could tell: the entire time, she just wanted to get us alone so that she could

worried, though he’s doing a bit better playing

right, Cora,” he says, putting a hand

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