The Fire and The Storm - The Nexus of Kellaran #2 novel Chapter 45

Part 8

“I’ll ask Grandfather Yazadril for special magic training.” Helemia added. “I’ll ask him for training on magic techniques that get the most results from the least magic power by focusing on precision and efficiency. I’ll be asking Bekamil of The Atoned about that too; he only has a tiny amount of power but he’s over three thousand years old, and he’s gotten really good at using the little bit of power he has. Knowing this should help us a lot in the void when we’re a long way from the sun, and it might help me and Reggie when our own magic starts to work. We might get it all at once like Valentia, or we might get just a little that grows with us, like most elven kids. If we only get a little bit at first we’ll still be able to do a lot with it, even if we can’t get power from someone else when we need it.

“I’m also going to ask for Healer’s training from Hilsith so I can help with her research. And I’m going to ask Quewanak to help me understand more of what we know about demons from Somonik’s memory.”

“We’ll make way better use of our time by splitting up like that.” Reggie added. “We both pretty much learn what the other one learns anyway, so we might as well. And it’s not so hard to be apart anymore. We figure we’ll spend about two hours every morning on this extra stuff, until Valentia’s ready to do it with us. We’ll do it more after that, but she doesn’t like being apart from us either.”

“Well, that all seems like fine thinking.” Talia smiled as she gave them a kiss goodbye.

“Will you be back for lunch?” Mark asked as he came over and knelt down for a hug.

“Yup.” Reggie nodded. “Mother’s making berry pie. I’d never miss that!”

“Good. There’s something I want to ask you before you go, though.” Mark said as he stood. “As far as I know, no one outside our house knows about the prophesies you made about your destined loves, and we think it would be best if it stayed that way. We also don’t think it would be good for Valentia to know, if she doesn’t already. It might become a self-fulfilling prophesy before it’s meant to happen, if indeed it is meant to happen, or it might drive her away from you if she feels that her choices are being made for her. I’d also like you to make an effort to not treat her any differently than you would have if you’d never had the prophecy. As you said, maybe you’re not meant to be together for twenty thousand years or more from now. History is full of people who caused bad things by trying to make a prophecy happen too early.”

“All right father.” Reggie nodded. “Valentia doesn’t know, I don’t think. I can’t say for certain; we’ve been Linked with her a lot so she might have seen something we haven’t showed her, but we haven’t showed her that.”

“I don’t want anyone to know that I know about my destined love either.” Helemia stated with determination. “I wish I didn’t know. Now I have to do the same thing; act normal as much as I can so the prophecy doesn’t come early or get messed up. We still don’t know if Reggie’s really a prophet anyway. Him and Kragorram aren’t even best friends. We were already planning on killing demons anyway, we’ll probably never know what the demons actually call us, and us destroying their homeworld is already starting to be what you said; self-fulfilling, because we’re already working on it just because he said so. The only thing he’s said would happen that did is that Alilia named Valentia that after he said so, but he might have picked it up from Alilia’s mind, or she might have done it because he said so right to her. If he hadn’t said it to her and he’d written it down in private and showed it to someone else, and Alilia named her that without knowing about it, then we’d know. Now we have to wait until he says something we can prove.

“Anyway, we haveta go if we don’t want to be late back for lunch. Love you!” she added as Reggie opened the door.

“Love you! Have fun!” Mark returned, then turned to Talia.