The Endless Knight: The Seekers Trilogy (The Watchers Series Book 6) by T.C. Edge

Author:T.C. Edge
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2016-11-16T07:00:00+00:00

16

ALLIES DIVIDED

My father’s head is low, drooping, his chin close to his chest. Drake, too, has a sheepish look splashed across his face. Both are finding it tricky to look my mother in the eye right now.

“I’m sorry, Cy,” says Jackson quietly. “I thought it was for the best…”

“We both did,” adds Drake. “We weren’t sure how you’d take it.”

Cyra steps closer towards them, and shakes her head.

“I understand, Jack…dad. I don’t blame you for keeping the truth from me. I know you were just trying to protect me. But…there’s no protecting me from myself, I guess. My visions have grown stronger. I couldn’t help but see the truth.”

We’re in my grandfather’s quarters, just off from the war room, once more engaging in a secret meeting beyond the knowledge of the rest of the council. I stand beside Ajax, watching on having introduced my mother to the room.

“She already knew?” asks Ajax with a whisper. “You didn’t tell her yourself?”

I shake my head. “She saw it all,” I say. “She’s known for a while.”

And for that, I’m truly happy. I don’t have to feel guilty any more for keeping the secret from her, and I don’t have to feel guilty for having revealed it. On both counts, I’ve been let off the hook.

And the relief is palpable.

“And…how do you feel about it all?” asks Drake carefully, peering now closely into his daughter’s eyes.

“I feel like there’s more to this boy than any of us know,” she answers. “I’ve been watching him in my visions. What Theo told him has created a crack in his mind, and the light is beginning to shine in. He’s hunting the truth, his mind is bent on it.”

Jackson and Drake look at each other, then back at Cyra.

“You’ve seen all that way?” asks Drake. “Are you sure about this?”

“I have a connection with him,” she answers calmly. “Theo has is too, that’s why that vision of their meeting came so regularly. It’s hard to describe, really. This is stronger than anything I’ve felt before, like I’ve got a special line into his mind. I can feel his confusion and anger…and fear.”

“Fear?” says Jackson. “You can sense that?”

She nods. “The world he knows has been shaken. There are doubts in him now.”

“And do you know where he is?” asks Drake.

“No,” she answers. “But from what I can gather, he doesn’t seem to be out there with the others. I’m seeing no pain or death around him. Only pain in himself.”

Listening to my mother, I feel almost foolish for thinking my connection with him meant anything. Truly, their link is something else entirely, something more profound.

Jackson and Drake, too, carry the look of guilt with them. A regret, perhaps, that they didn’t include my mother earlier, that they didn’t trust her to handle it.

Yet now isn’t the time for looking back. It’s time we look forward.

In that room, over the next hour, we talk in quiet whispers, sharing the information that we were once keeping from each other.

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