Kiss Across Time (Kiss Across Time Series) by Cooper-Posey Tracy

Author:Cooper-Posey, Tracy [Cooper-Posey, Tracy]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781927423844
Publisher: Tracy Cooper-Posey
Published: 2013-04-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

The queen stared at her for a long, long moment. Then she smiled. “Perhaps I was wrong about you. You may call me Tira.” She stepped back to the table and perched on the edge of it. “You are correct in your assessment, Maggie Taylor Yates. This is a very bad screw-up and it needs to be undone. Is there more to this tale that I have not yet heard? Veris’ message implied that there was.”

Veris nodded. “There is something strange that neither of us has ever experienced before. Waking dreams. Flashes of memories from our past that Taylor is experiencing with us.”

Tira’s eyes narrowed. “Explain.”

Veris explained quickly and frankly and Tira’s face became immobile as he spoke. Her gaze seemed to focus inward.

When he finished speaking she sat silently for nearly a minute. Then she stirred, sighed and smiled sadly. “I know of this thing that is happening to you,” she said softly. “For it once happened to me. Long ago. It does not happen often among us. I have not ever heard of it happening with a human, for their mind cannot usually cope with the span of history but your mate clearly has an extraordinary mind, capable of holding the leap of history and the chaos of centuries and languages without imploding upon itself.”

“I have been trained to deal with that sort of chaos,” Taylor said simply. “I have been training to deal with it since high school. That is one outcome of Brody’s accidental nudging. He pushed me in the direction of studying history, immersing myself in it.”

Tira nodded. “Fate has a way of ensuring these things happen as they should. Perhaps Brody’s interference in history wasn’t as ill-timed and unfortunate as we’re assuming—at least not for you three, anyway. I’m not so far removed from my own humanity that I’ve forgotten that side of my nature, for all that it was over three thousand years ago.” Tira smiled a little. “The waking dreams you are experiencing you should consider a gift from whatever gods still walk this earth and accept them for what they are.”

“What are they?” Taylor said bluntly.

Tira blinked. “You do not see it?”

“No.”

“Ah.” Tira put her hands together in her lap. “Brody and Veris have been together for a long time. You are aware of that, yes?”

“Yes.”

“And their lives, even before they met, stretched for many years longer than that of a human.”

“I know the circumstances of their raising. Both of them.”

“The sum total of their experiences is so vast, young human, that your little life is but a blink of an eye to them. Yet they have chosen to mark you. To make you theirs.”

Brody’s fingers tightened against her flesh.

“We had experienced the dreams before they marked me,” Taylor pointed out.

“It’s a chicken and egg thing,” Tira responded, nodding. “Don’t get caught up in trying to resolve that issue. You never will, believe me, young one.” Tira waved the point away with a flick of her slender hand. “These waking dreams, these experiences, are so real because they are as close to time travel as we will ever get.

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