STARGATE ATLANTIS: Secrets (Legacy book 5) by Secrets (SGA-20; Legacy Book 5)

Author:Secrets (SGA-20; Legacy, Book 5) [Retail]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fandemonium Books
Published: 2020-06-18T12:01:17+00:00

Chapter fifteen

Hidden Things

Teyla stood by the window, her hair still wet from the shower, watching the dawn come over the sea. She had thought the warm falling water would soothe her, but it had not. In the next room Torren slept on peacefully.

The skies were streaked with thin, high clouds, turning pinkish in herald of the sun. Her body felt strange to her, and not only because she was lately out of the infirmary. The dream had been so vivid that she had expected to wake as Osprey. It was strange indeed to see these skies instead of the ones of Athos, these skies that had held Osprey imprisoned.

There was a step behind her, John’s hands on her shoulders. “You ok?” He sounded muzzy with sleep, though his hands were warm enough, and she leaned back against him.

“I dreamed,” Teyla said. “I dreamed I was a Wraith queen.”

“Well.” His arms went around her waist, her hands tightening over his. “That’s probably because of all this stuff with Todd, right?”

“I do not think so,” she said slowly. “I believe what I dreamed was real.” She turned around, seeing his stubbled face and worried hazel eyes. There was more gray at his temples than there had been even six months ago, a few strands threading through on top as well. Harsh morning light was unkind. Almost his face seemed that of a stranger. Of a god, the part of her that was Osprey whispered, and Teyla shuddered.

“Hey.” John frowned. “What’s wrong?”

Son of the Ancients, heir of their power, heir of their crimes and their arrogance…

I am not you, she thought, pushing the thought away. I am not Osprey. I am Teyla Emmagan of Athos, Teyla Who Walks Through Gates, and I choose for myself.

“I dreamed of the First Mothers,” she said. “And I think I dreamed true. Guide told me…” She paused, knowing how it would sound, but John had always believed her, always from the beginning. “He told me that Wraith queens may retain some of the genetic memories of their mothers, of the lineage that they come from back to the First Mothers. I dreamed of Osprey.”

John swallowed but his eyes didn’t leave her face. “Ok,” he said evenly. “That’s disturbing.”

“I am disturbed,” she said, turning once again toward the cold sea. It was hundreds of miles across icy ocean to the island where Osprey had been imprisoned, but the view was the same. “The Wraith were created here, John. Here on this world. I do not know why. But the Ancients made them. I do not know what they intended to do, taking humans from the worlds of this galaxy and twisting them so, but they made them. I remember.” Osprey’s sadness closed her throat, feelings both new minted and eleven thousand years old.

He did not disbelieve her. “The installation on the island,” he said. “Dr. Lynn’s prison break.”

“She was a teenage girl,” Teyla said, and her voice did not shake. “A girl of seventeen, one of nine women who survived the experiments.

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