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“Kale,” she said keenly, and I arched an eyebrow at her. She had a thing for that boy of Seth and Caleb’s, always toddling after him and rolling in the mud with him like a hellion. “And your cousins will be here,” I reminded her, and her green eyes lit up as she clapped her hands together.
She started listing off the many, many cousins she had, Tory and Darius having provided two sets of twins and finishing it off with triplets last year. I didn’t know if they were done, but I did know that they were crazy.
the three one-year-olds, Axel, Nero and Bowie taking naps inside silencing bubbles, and I smiled at their content faces.
“Can you take us to the woods again, Uncle Lancelot?” Darius’s seven-year-old boy, Rygar, asked keenly. He’d come up with the nickname himself after reading about the legend of King Arthur at school, and I liked the reminder of my father’s old name for me.
chased after her brother Kale. I was suddenly surrounded by a hoard of kids, all looking at me with those dangerous pleading eyes, and Azura prodded me in the cheek, making me focus on her. “Fly, Dada!” she cried.
Tory and Darius’s five-year-old twins, Ender and Kylo, were up on the top of a high slide, pounding their fists and baying roar cries before launching themselves down it one after the other face-first.
“What happened?” I gasped, and she pointed skyward. My neck craned as I found Azura up in the treetops, two fiery wings blazing at her back. “Holy shit,” I gasped as she sailed through the leaves, setting them all on fire while singing softly to herself, seemingly unaware that she was burning the whole woodland down. “She’s Emerged!” Archer shouted in shock. “Dad – save her!” “By the stars.” I quickly looped a whip of air around Azura’s
“Watch out,” Gabriel called. “Her Emergence is triggering others.”
sphere of safety while holding her damn tight. Two trees were felled beneath me and I found Darius and Tory’s seven-year-old twins shifting into two beautiful metallic Dragons, one bronze, one silver, the other kids cheering in excitement and Kale letting out a howl of joy. I’d known that chaos was coming, but this? I stared at Azura who was flapping around in my bubble with blazing wings of fire.
MANY YEARS AFTER THAT (just before a new evil appears and it all goes to hell again)
We had been two lost girls adrift in the mortal realm, but here, in this wilderness of magic and endless love, we had found ourselves at home.
