The Vulpirans' Honor: The Soul-Linked Saga by Laura Jo Phillips

Author:Laura Jo Phillips [Phillips, Laura Jo]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781480120082
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2012-10-15T07:00:00+00:00

Day Seven

Darck Winicke stepped out of the small hut he shared with Thelba and looked around at the rest of the small village. It was difficult to tell whether it was day or night since the entire village was hidden inside of a massive cave, but he didn’t care. Never in his life had Darck felt as content as he had since coming here to this hidden village on Onddo. Never had he been more accepted. That the village population was entirely female made his acceptance all the more remarkable to him. On Earth women, all women, young or old, had looked at him with nothing but disgust. Except his mother.

“What is troubling you, Darck?” Thelba asked from the doorway behind him.

He turned to look at the female Narrasti, amazed, as always, at the depth of his feelings for her. Raised on Earth, he had a human’s idea of female beauty, which Thelba could never come close to meeting. Nevertheless, from the first moment he’d met her he’d thought her the most beautiful female he’d ever laid eyes on with her light green, scaled skin, and warm yellow eyes. She looked like a female version of himself, which was interesting considering that he was only part Narrasti.

“You no wish to tell Thelba?” she asked. “You could tell Marqex. She listen good.”

“Of course I wish to tell you,” he said, reaching out to caress her cheek. “I was just thinking about my mother.”

“She makes you troubled?” Thelba asked.

“No, the way I treated her makes me troubled,” he replied. “She was the only person in my entire life, aside from you, who loved me unconditionally. But I wanted to be accepted by my father’s people, so I turned my back on her, treated her as they treated her. Only now do I see how I must have hurt her.”

“How did they treat her?” Thelba asked.

“Badly,” Darck replied. He couldn’t think of a way to explain to her that his mother had been a prisoner of the Brethren for her entire life, that she’d been forced to give birth to him. How could he tell a being as gentle and compassionate as Thelba that he had not only accepted that situation as normal, but that he had become one of his own mother’s jailers?

“Does your mother still live?” Thelba asked.

“I don’t know,” he replied. “She was very old when I last saw her, before we left Earth.”

“You must make peace with her shadi,” Thelba said. “If you do not, it will haunt you for all time.”

“What does that mean? Shadi?”

“Shadi is the part of her that you carry, inside of you,” Thelba said, struggling to explain a concept she was born knowing in a language she’d only recently learned.

“Like her soul?” Darck asked.

“No,” Thelba replied. “Her soul is her own. Shadi is the part of her self, her heart and feelings, that she shared with you, that you carry within you.”

Darck frowned in thought. “I think I see what you mean,” he said. “But how can I make peace with such a thing? She is not here.

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