Selena Rose, Daughter of the Moon

Chapter 21

"The bastard won't stop moving!" Luna drops the pendulum on the map in frustration, "He hasn't stopped moving since he left here. I can follow the line of where he is going but who knows when he will stop? Zethes, these winds he is riding, do they get tired? Do they run out? How does that work?"

Zethes turns from the window, "No, they don't get tired or run out. They move on. Some places are favored but the wind is not bound to a spot and has no worries for energy even when transporting two."

Luna grabs the pendulum with more force than necessary and begins searching for him again. She finds him and the pendulum follows him as he circles the town. Selena watches from the cozy chair they think will calm her, fear and rage still at war inside her. None of them dare touch me right now with the magical current sparking all over my body. I can't stop it. I'm not even sure that I want to stop it. What I want is to find Gabriel and take my daughter back from him. How dare he! He doesn't even know her and doesn't want to be her father, he just wants to own me. I think it was a mistake not dating all this time, it gave him the wrong idea. Wait, what the fuck am I thinking? I didn't want to date anyone. The mistake is his in thinking that I am something to be owned. Fuck that noise. He needs to get himself together and sort out his thinking. What kind of person looks at someone else as something to be owned? Worse yet, what kind of person looks at a child as a pawn? I can't keep going with that line of thought, it isn't going anyplace nice. What is taking mom so long to find him? And why do I smell smoke? Oh...

"Mom, how's the search going? I need to go find her. I can't keep sitting here. The chair is starting to smoke." Apophis looks at his chair in alarm and sees that it is indeed smoking.

"Selena, darling, that is a very expensive chair. Go back to pacing."

Selena is out of the chair instantly and over to the table with a map of the town that her mother circling with her pendulum though she is careful not to touch it considering her current state. Luna looks up, "I can't find him anymore. He disappeared and I can't find either of them."

Selena's throat tightens. "I can't lose my daughter. I just can't lose her. He doesn't know her or care about her. I love her! She is afraid of him!" The sparks along her skin are coming faster now, her voice rising with each word spoken.

Dwayne moves into her field of vision, "We will get Kya back. I promise. I have called my kin and they have wolf friends that would be happy to shift and track her down for you. We will find her. But you have to stay calm."

"Oh Selena," Luna says, "he is right. You are this child's mother and it is up to you to stay calm so you don't hinder the search." She reaches across the table for Selena's hand. Selena looks at her hand for a moment before grudgingly placing her hand in her mothers. "The best thing you can do is to put all that rage energy in a box and keep it till we find him. We will find him."

Selena stares unseeing at the map for a few minutes. The crackling lights moving on her skin slow and disappear. Looking up she tells them, "We need to find her fast. Before I spring a leak."

Zethes turns back to face the room again. "The winds say that he doesn't have Kya with him now. They don't know where she is but he is heading in this direction."

Luna begins scrying again, "If I can find her then we can get her while he is distracted. You may have to be the distraction Selena."

"If it gets my daughter to safety there isn't much I won't do."

Apophis has been standing off to the side watching and listening. "How long before he gets in this area Zethes?"

"At least half an hour."

"Luna, you lock on him and keep track of his progress. Selena, do you have any of Kya's hair?"

Selena looks sharply at him, "I do. Why?"

"I can find her. I just need something of hers, hair is easiest."

"Here," she pulls a locket out of her bra cup and opening it she extracts a few hairs. Handing them to Apophis she asks, "How long will this take?"

"Not long at all. I will return shortly."

"You can't do it here?"

"No, this isn't the kind of magic I share with everyone. Most would consider it dark magic."

"Fine. Hurry."