Fate and Future (Destined Demigods Book 1) by Sloan Tamar

Author:Sloan, Tamar
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jess Connors Publishing
Published: 2023-12-20T00:00:00+00:00

MICAH

For a long time, watching the Loom had been enough.

Watching the fabric of life weave and lengthen, marveling at the play of light on dark, would keep me fascinated for hours.

Then, I discovered you could zoom in.

Without even touching it, a wave of my hand would expand the area where I was looking. Suddenly, rather than staring at the enormity of every life on Earth, I could discover continents, countries, cities.

On a large scale, it’s easy to forget each thread is a single life. The fabric is so large, so complicated, so much bigger than any one thread. It’s like watching an ant colony, forgetting that each ant is a life in itself. But when you zoom in on the fibers, faces appear. Lives begin to play out.

That’s how I followed my father.

That’s how I found Kadence.

Damien Black had been to Detroit, as I found out later, to buy the apartment block he demolished. The one I’m supposed to have died in.

But I saw another thread, woven a little looser than the others. I’d looked closer, seeing it was barely hanging on. For some reason I was curious. I zoomed in a little more.

Her face had filled the Loom. Kadence, not that I knew her name back then. Sitting up on the ledge, the wind streaking through her shiny, blonde hair, her shoulders hunched and defensive. Her cherry-pink mouth looking like it had forgotten how to smile.

It was her eyes that had drawn me in like a magnet. Shifting shades of gray, the light slowly dying in them.

“This one is sad.”

My mother had entered the room just as I said it. I’d waved my hand, the image disappearing back into the complexity of the fabric, not sure why. Keeping tabs on Dad was obviously necessary to hide but seeing a girl on a rooftop wasn’t.

“Many of them are,” Mom had said with her usual acceptance. “Just like many have found joy.”

With a swallow, I’d nodded. “I hope she sees the light.”

Mom had patted my arm. “You’ve seen it with the souls here at Elysium, Micah. Darkness is where light comes from.”

I’d nodded and turned away, mumbling something about going to find Blake. But that’s when it had started. When I was alone at home, with Mom doing the rounds either at Elysium or Tartarus, I’d checked in.

Usually, Kadence was on the rooftop. Slowly, inevitably, unweaving herself from the fabric of life…disentangling herself from the blotches of sadness and anger and hate surrounding her.

All I wanted was for her to see the veins of light that were wound just as tightly.

It’s early morning as I head through the gardens. I’d fallen asleep in the desert of Elysium, curled up in the sand, along with my tears. Once I’d woken, I knew I needed to go back.

But as I shuffle down the path, I wonder where I’m going.

Going home involves seeing my mother and feeling the weight of her disappointment, only adding to the heaviness in my chest.

Staying in the gardens will mean running into someone at some stage and having to bear witness to their peaceful joy.

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