Enlightened: The Ascension of Meghan May by Jaya Moon

Author:Jaya Moon [Moon, Jaya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-05T05:00:00+00:00

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Images of all the kin in their human form flashed through my mind. The pictures came fast and faster. There were so many, my mind so full of them and the images so bright, I clasped my head, squeezed my eyes shut, and howled in pain.

“Mox! Make it stop! Make them stop!”

But Mox wasn’t with me anymore. I stood in the heart of a vortex created by the kin and I had no idea how to escape it. I wasn’t holding anyone’s hand that I could let go of and break the connection. The soul, deep inside me somewhere, had drawn me in and I didn’t know how to get it out.

“Please! Stop!”

Something drew slowly, gently across my forehead and hair, like a parent’s soothing stroke after a nightmare, and with it the pain disappeared.

I opened my eyes to daylight. I no longer stood on the fringe of the forest. I was in the center of the glade. The sun hung high and bright above me, and the sky was a brilliant blue echoing the color of the souls. Surrounding me the forest stood, but it was in motion, streaming in greens and browns—the edge of the vortex spinning.

From it stepped a form lined in blue. It struggled against the pull of the vortex, wisps of it pulled back into the swirl. It fought, determined to move toward me, and as it made headway, what I saw became clearer.

It was human.

A man.

Dad.

In a burst of tears, I ran and dove at him, wanting to wrap my arms around, hold him and never let go, but I fell through him like he wasn’t there at all. He was comprised of millions of small bright blue particles, like motes of dust. Even though I couldn’t hold him, there was no mistaking him. His scent surrounded me. I’d forgotten it. Earth mixed with his nightly glass of red wine and a hint of fire smoke.

“Megsy. You’ve found your way here.” He said it with happiness and relief as though he’d been waiting for me. “You’ve found your way here,” he said again, concern clouding his tone.

“Why are you here?” A place where only the kin came.

“I come here as all the souls of the kin do. To speak of things only the dead see to those who they loved and left behind.”

I didn’t know what he meant and didn’t have time to think about it. Memories of the last moment I’d seen him flooded back, before the bear had taken him—all three of them—from me. “I didn’t know what to do. I shouldn’t have run.” Sobs choked my throat. “I miss you, Dad.”

“You couldn’t have done anything to save us. That fate was ours. This is yours.”

Fate? This? “What do you mean?” I had a thousand questions and they came out in a rush. “Did you know the kin? This place? Did Mom? This strange thing happens when I hold a shifter’s hand, and Tallow said maybe I—”

“Time,” he interrupted. “We don’t have much time.

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