Chapter 488: A Powerful Gift


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    Cora wipes at her face with the palms of her hands. “I’m sorry,” she says. “I just…I kind of flipped out.”


    “The vision wasn’t bad,” I say, “I promise it wasn’t. And we get it – if you came out of the baptism


    ceremony looking like you’d jumped into the pool? I’d have freaked out too!”


    “Yeah, well,” she murmurs, ncing down at my stomach, “maybe I’ll just do that out of spite in six


    months, see how you like it.”


    Iugh then, the noise surprising me, and Cora’s face breaks into a tentative smile.


    “There’s my girl,” Roger murmurs, lifting a hand to wipe at thest of her tears.


    “I think we need to hear all of it,” Cora says, nodding to Sinir and then to me. “Please. Just…maybe


    just for this baby, our first.”


    “Okay,” I whisper, nodding. And then Sinir and I tell her all of it – of all the wonderful things we saw


    for Rafe as he grows up, and his happiness with his cousins. And then we tell of the darkness we saw,


    and the incredible way he moved through it – of the challenge clearlyid out for him in his future.


    “Wow,” Roger says, a little baffled as he looks down at his baby. “I have…I have no way of really


    comprehending what any of that means,” he murmurs.


    “It was difficult to know what we were seeing,” Sinir replies, looking down at me for confirmation. I


    nod. “Then, E got really pissed. That’s when she jumped into the pool.”


    “What?!” Cora gasps.


    I give a shrug. “I wasn’t going to let her end the vision there. So…we kind of got into a fight, and then


    she gave me thest image – of Jesse old and happy, so that I’d go away.”


    Cora bursts intoughter then, looking down at her little baby. “We chose the right godmother for you,


    baby,” she sighs. “Always getting her money’s worth.”


    “Damn straight,” I say looking up at Sinir with a very clear told-you-so expression on my face. “Only


    the full baptism experience for my baby nephew.”


    “So, what do you think it means?” Roger asks, looking between us.


    “I don’t know,” I reply, resting my hand on my chin and gazing at the baby, wondering about his very


    strange and very interesting future. “He’s going to be very close with Rafe and with the new baby girl.


    And the way he handled a dagger, and the way he was dressed – I think he’s going to be a warrior.”


    “That fits,” Cora sighs, looking up at me with a little guilt in her eyes. “We saw Rafe was going to be a


    warrior too. So, at least they’ll have each other.”


    A little anxiety turns in me at that, but I just nod, tucking the information away. I mean, considering who


    his dad is? I can’t say that I’m surprised. But I can think about how I feel about it another day.


    “I think it’s more than that, though,” I murmur. “Something mom said


    “Wait, what?” Sinir says, breaking in and stepping away from me a little, looking down at me. “She


    spoke?”


    “Oh yeah,” I say, giving a little apologeticugh and a shrug. “I forgot you didn’t hear her. My bad.”


    “Your bad!?” he says, appalled.


    “Yes, my bad!” I return, rolling my eyes and brushing a hand through the air at him, dismissive. I turn


    my eyes back to Cora. “Mom said that Jesse’s mission will be his own and that she doesn’t know the


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    I look up at Sinir, wondering if he felt the same. He sighs as he looks at me and then turns to nod to


    his brother and my sister. “That was the impression that I got too. That whatever gift the Goddess gave


    to him… it’s a powerful one.”


    Cora and Roger are quiet for a long moment, shifting their gaze to their little boy. Sinir and I sit


    quietly, letting them process their thoughts.


    “You know,” Roger says quietly, thoughtful. “If you’d asked me before he was born if I wanted him to


    have a weird, cool, powerful gift, I’d have said hell yeah. But now that he’s here? And he’s so…tiny?”


    Roger takes a deep breath that breaks my heart a little bit, shaking his head as he stares at his son. “I


    wish his gift was something stupid, like…being really, really good at bowling. Or just being magically


    kickass at Scrabble.”


    “He’s going to get that from me anyway,” Cora murmurs, smirking a little, and I bite my lip to see the


    humor returning to these two. Because if they’re joking about it…I think it means that they’re strong


    enough to get through it.


    “Thest thing mom said to me,” I say quietly, and Cora’s eyes sh up to me with a little bit of dread in


    them – like she doesn’t want any more information tonight –


    Iugh and shake my head. “No, it’s good!” I say, putting up a hand. “She said to trust them,” I


    continue, nodding. “Trust our kids. And it felt very true – I mean, we’re all aware that we’re not bringing


    kids into an easy life. They’re born into responsibilities. We have to raise them to be strong, and then


    when they’re grown? We have to trust them to handle themselves in the world.”


    Sinir nods slowly, agreeing with me. “And I don’t think the Goddess would have given Jesse a


    powerful gift if she didn’t think he could handle it,” he says softly, putting a hand on my shoulder. “I don’t


    think she’s in the business of screwing over her grandkids.”


    Cora sighs, nodding too. “Just giving her daughters extreme anxiety,” she mutters, sighing and running


    a hand over Jesse’s sleeping heads.


    “I think that’s probably all moms,” I say, standing up and leaning against my mate, who pulls me tight


    against him. “But…I mean, I think it’s going to turn out okay.”


    “Why do you say that?” Cora asks, looking up at me again, I think hoping for another little hint from


    mom, who of course knows more than we do.


    “I just have faith,” I say, letting my lips turn up into a smile. “These kids – they’re going to be good eggs


    and we’re going to love them a lot. If they end up with the fate of the world in their hands?” I look up at


    my mate and shrug. “Then I think the world’s got a pretty good shot.”


    Sinir smiles at me, leaning down to give me a little kiss before we turn back to Cora and Roger.


    “You guysing downstairs?” I ask, nodding towards the door, eager to get to Rafe and give him a


    snuggle and whisper to him how loved he is if he can’t hear me. even


    “In a minute,” Cora replies, giving me a tentative smile that has a great deal of warmth behind it.


    Because even if she is still spooked a bit – I know she agrees with me. Our kids are going to be great –


    we just have to have faith in them.


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    “We’ll be waiting,” Sinir says, giving them a steady nod, and together we let the new parents have a


    minute alone with their son.