From Undone: A Storm of Love, A Novella by Brisbin Terri

Author:Brisbin, Terri [Brisbin, Terri]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp
Published: 2011-06-30T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Fenella was dead.

Aigneis shivered as she thought the words—the words, the declaration, that troubled her more as they moved closer to his village and his sister. Even if forced to it, she could not explain how she knew, but it was, she feared, the truth.

And it would destroy this good man.

His restlessness was palpable to her as he struggled through the night before the day came that would see him home. Even now, as he walked away because he could not identify the real reason for it, she could.

Once back among her family and away from the Sith, Aigneis discovered she had some talents or skills. Coming with no regularity or explanation, sometimes she could see things that were not around her. At first she thought she was dreaming while awake, but later she realized that these were visions of a past or present or future event. She could hear things—sometimes people’s thoughts unspoken rang inside her head. Sometimes the truth of a matter would echo around her, clear to no one else but her.

And she healed. When she first noticed it, she had tried to use the living force that seemed to pulse through her at times to aid others, but there never seemed enough to work on any other person, only her.

It took her a long time to realize that these too were remnants, but not of her time with the Sith. These were shadows of the powers the Sith prince had gifted her sons with before their births and his curse. Her body must have absorbed some of it as it passed through her to them, but not enough to do anything but drive her mad.

And so she watched others around her suffer and die and fail because she knew only enough to know such power existed, but not enough to use it. As though losing her sons was not a terrible enough punishment, this too was another one given to her by the Sith.

Now, she knew, she knew, that Breac’s sister had already passed away and there was nothing she could say or do. And once he discovered the truth, he would blame himself for more than he was responsible for in this.

Aigneis followed him down toward the stream, realizing there was only one thing she could do to comfort him—give him release from the tension within and make him rest so that he faced the trying day alert. He would lose many nights of sleep in the coming days to grief, but she could make this be a restful one.

She owed him that much and more for giving her a second chance to live.

Aigneis closed her eyes and took a deep breath in and released it. What she planned would be the last time she drew on such power, but she did not grieve the loss of it. Indeed, it had caused much trouble for her and she would be glad to be rid of it, and for such a good cause as this. She undressed then, tossing her clothing aside and standing in the chill night air naked.

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