Transcending the Legacy by Venessa Kimball Page A

Onoch bloodline.”
    I look at Xander. “You did it to save us in the forest.”
    My eyes move to Nate, then back to Ezra. “You sacrificed yourselves to save me.”
    I look at Sam and Corinna standing off to the side. “Sam helped bring us back from beyond the veil.”
    Then, my eyes land on Siobhan leaning on a cargo trunk off to the side with Jake. “Angela did it to save us all. Why? Because we each have a connection with each other.”
    My eyes move to Xander, then to Nate. “Some connections are unbreakable no matter what. Even when a link is broken.”
    Realizing I just said that out loud , and looked at both of the men I love when I said it, I quickly turn to face Sebastian, Ezra, and Daniel. “Forget about the manufactured links of the old Copulas for a second. We don’t have them any more with the new Copulas, but what if a cosmic link happened long before any manufactured link? What if it started with our families, our ancestors? I have been seeing things from the past in my sleep. Roan and Delilah taking me to the mounds as a child, then the vision shifts. I am lying on the dirt of a domed cave. There is a fire pit and an old man with tattoos on his face. He is chanting.”
    I look at Monica off in the corner. “Monica has seen things also.”
    Monica tightens her lips, but doesn’t deny her experience.
    Siobhan pushes off of the trunk. “I haven’t seen anything, just heard things in my sleep on the plane. Chanting.”
    “I heard the same thing in my mind when we got off the plane,” adds Elisha.
    Sam acknowledges, “Before I woke in the facility, after we made it back to our world, I was lying in a small dark place, the only light coming from a flaming fire pit.” Sam somberly looks at Corinna as she takes his hand in hers and squeezes.
    Luke adds, “I saw the same image while on the plane.”
    Xander clears his throat and puts his hands in his pockets before he speaks. “When Jes, Nate, and I...when we were…when we came back, I remember holding onto Nate’s and her hand as we waited for someone to save us. When I closed my eyes, I guess I went unconscious. I saw a cave entrance, then a tunnel. I was walking down into it. I was not in control and in my mind, I went through the tunnel into a small room, and came eye to eye with a young woman. She was dressed like a princess. Her eyes were...they were green like Jes’.” Xander looks at me, then away quickly. “Even though my mind was telling me to go back through the tunnel, go back to Jes and Nate, I couldn’t. I felt stuck, immoveable in her presence.” Xander looks back at me boldly. “I didn’t want to leave her presence, ever .”
    Realizing he had slipped too far back into the moment, Xander clears his throat and turns away from us, arms folded, closed off. I turn back to Sebastian. “This is what we know, what we are experiencing. Yes, you told us how the mounds fascinated you as a child, how you wanted to learn more, and discovered too much about the Sanderson family and how they were involved with our ancient Indian ancestors. You told us your theory of how our ancestors had trusted beings beyond our world to bring salvation when we needed it. Something you haven’t told us is how to use this legacy to save ourselves.”
    “We don’t know how to use it,” Sebastian says agitatedly.
    I can’t Believe that we know nothing. “Maybe our dreams, our visions, will give us clues. So far we have a princess, an old Indian chanting, a cave with a fire pit.”
    Daniel chimes in, “A kiva.”
    “What?” I say not realizing I have snapped at him.
    “The cave with the fire pit is called a Kiva,” adds Daniel.
    “Maybe these are clues, puzzle pieces. Not all of us have had these visions, but those that have need to tell us what they have seen.”
    I look at Sebastian. “You said that you were fascinated with the Etowah Mounds. How did that start?”
    He knows more than he has told us, just like Ezra said on the plane. I can feel