Eating Bees in Bed by Annette Blair

Author:Annette Blair
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Annette Blair
Published: 2016-06-09T00:00:00+00:00

THIRTY-TWO

“McKenna, I would never let you fall.”

“You let yourself fall.”

“That was Killian, remember?”

“Oh, right.”

“Look, Kenna, on top of the caves,” he said to distract her, as Ciarra slowly appeared, Jock’s yellow smoke backlighting her, from her ancient cloak and gown to the wild mane of her red fire hair blowing in the breeze.

McKenna sat forward. “Who is that?”

“With the leadership in her stance, and the hands on her hips, she claims the caves as well as all she sees. Who do you think she might be?”

“Not Ciarra? Is she? The matriarch of our clan? Seriously, Bastian, is that the spirit of the woman who hid in the caves and survived the hanging times? She’s extraordinarily beautiful.”

The shadowy spirit at the top of the caves tilted her head in thanks.

“Can you hear me?” McKenna whispered.

Ciarra nodded.

“I didn’t know you were still here.”

“I am here to protect you.” Ciarra’s response came like a whisper on the wind.

“I’m honored to be your descendent and to have your protection, but I’m distressed that the prophesied champion of the McKenna clan never appeared. Even so, I will work very hard to save your legacy.”

From the tilt of Ciarra’s head as she nodded, and the way the matriarch, and McKenna’s descendants, focused on her, Bastian believed that he held in his arms the long-awaited champion of the clan, but to burden McKenna with that weighty knowledge at this time would only frighten her.

Ciarra began to fade but not before McKenna waved. “Thank you for saving us,” she said. “Thank you for giving us life.”

“Thank you,” came Ciarra’s echoing whisper.

McKenna turned to him. “Did she thank me?”

“Seems so.”

“Odd, but oh, you showed me my famous ancestor. Wait until I tell Vivica. Can I tell Vivica?”

“Only Vivica. No one else will believe you.”

“Of course. Bastian, I met the family leader, sort of.”

“Kenna, Ciarra is not your only ancestor here.”

Jock worked fast, highlighting spirit families, the first outline already fading, but McKenna got the idea. Their Celtic blessings and cheers warmed the air and came with raised hands, bows, curtseys, and air-kisses. Before McKenna’s eyes appeared elders, babies, men in kilts from earlier generations, their descendants, who left Scotland to later work this farm, and the women who bore their children and shouldered family burdens.

“There,” Bastian said, pointing. “There are Esther and Caleb, who left the addition and have been welcomed by the rest with love. There were no curses or negative spirits in the addition, ever, but you might want to get Vivica to do a health-and-prosperity ritual for Lizzie and Steve, and the same for your house before you open the Dragon’s Lair.”

“You believe in magic, then?”

“Kenna, darling, I am magic.”

“I’ll be the judge of that,” she said with a wink.

Teasing him? If she teased him, could he not retaliate and tease her?

But McKenna forgot his tease in view of her ancestors’ rousing cheers. She turned to him with tears on her cheeks. “My family. They’re my past and, in a way, the inspiration for my future. I have to save this land for them.

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