be here; I’m glad I’m with you. Do you want me to help you
wash up and change?”
“No – we want Mommy to
see us as we are. Would you like a glimpse of our mother?”
Alorrah waved her hand,
and then an image of a young woman and two little girls appeared on one of the
walls. They were all wearing blue jeans and white button-up shirts. One of the
girls had curly blonde hair; her friend’s hair was dark brown. Both shared blue
eyes. “That’s our friends Bree and Tercia.”
“They call themselves
Bren and Tracy now,” Alexis said.
The young woman’s
blonde hair hung over her left shoulder in a single braid, and fell almost to
her knees, but it was her eyes that mesmerized the young angel-blood; they were
violet too. “She’s so beautiful,” Hope gasped.
“She looks like her
grandmother,” Fionn said. “Except the hair; Esra’s hair was never that long.”
“Esra is Mommy’s
sister, and Fionn’s wife. She’s a seer too,” Alorrah said.
Hope walked over to the
man whose cheeks were wet with tears. She reached down and dipped one of the towels in the basin. After taking
a seat beside him; she began to clean his face.
“You must miss her.
Would you like some more water?”
She ran to the table
and grabbed another bottle, which she handed to him. Unable to answer her, he
nodded before opening the drink, and again emptying the bottle.
“You should get some
sleep. Tomorrow will be a busy day,” Alorrah said. “By the way, remember what I
told you about time here? A few hours,
is like months where you come from.”
She and Alexis moved onto the bed,
and after giving Fionn a gentle hug, Hope joined them.
Before placing her shoes next to the
table, she threw the porcelain doll out the open door, listening to it shatter
against the stone floor.
She climbed beside the two little
girls, and within seconds, she was fast asleep.
Chapter 6
While Eve was informing
her best friend, Angie, about Lucifer’s visit to Aeden, and the arrival of the
archangels, Bren led Tracy into one of the spare bedrooms. This one was on the
top floor, away from where the family slept.
When the Guild met with
out of town guests, they stayed at Aura’s house, so the rooms were always
prepared.
The room was designed
in a beach theme with white Adirondack chairs and wicker furniture. Seashells
and flip-flop borders were painted all over the sand-colored walls.
After closing the door,
Bren pulled Tracy to the large bay window that overlooked the backyard.
“Don’t you want to stay
and listen to what your father has to say?” Tracy asked.
“I have something
important to show you.”
Bren pulled the
curtains closed to block out the fading sunlight so her projection would be
easily visible.
She turned around and
raised her hands. An image appeared on the far wall above the queen-sized
rattan bed.
A maroon colored car
was driving down a dirt road in the middle of a rainstorm. Thunder and lightning
could be heard in the distance.
The car skidded out of
control, throwing a woman through the windshield, killing her instantly. At the
same time, a small child was ejected from the backseat, unconscious, but alive.
An older child, after realizing her mother was dead, climbed out of the car in
search of her little sister. A few seconds later, two males appeared – dark
wings.
Bren and Tracy listened
to the conversation, and watched in horror, as each of the girls was taken in
different directions. Seeing her sister being abducted, the eldest child began
to scream while trying to escape the clutches of the fallen angel who held her
arms in a firm grip. Ignoring the girl’s tears, he started laughing before
disappearing in a cloud of black smoke.
“How did you do that?”
Tracy asked.
Bren told her about the
meeting with Esra that morning. She made her sit on the bed, and then handed
her the pendant.
“Wear this and you will
understand everything.”
It took all of thirty
minutes for Tracy’s memory
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