Dragoned in Half

Where Ends Meet-Kawa

As the light in the ether brightens I look to my brothers and sisters and I smile. For so long we have been trapped in this place due to my mistake over a century ago. Ever forgiving in their nature they didn't leave me here alone. They used the last vestiges of their strength to help me create a path that would one day redeem us all. Now that the strength of the ether shines fully, we know that our time has now come.

"We are with you until the end my sister" They all say in unison as they did on that very day we were sent here. I smile at them in thanks for their sacrifice as I go to meet them. Nervousness fills me at the conversation that is to be had. There will be more explanations given today then any other but finally they will be ready for those answers. Ready I close my eyes and let my soul flow to where it shines so brightly. When I find them, they all sit on the edge of my fountain.

"Well, it seems that you have fulfilled your calling" I state brightly when their heads turn in my direction. They rise from their seats to greet me as I beam at them.

"And what would that call be?" Morbius says. He has always been one of my creations that could never leave anything unanswered. I have quite enjoyed jesting with him in this place as I tested him for his mate. Today will be no different.

"Now what would I give you the answer to? Follow me and I will show you "I say as I watch him sigh heavily. I fight the laughter at his surly expression as I create a door to the past in which I want to go. I make myself appear in the back of the viewing room as the three take their seats. Watching this part has always been sad for me and I cannot convey that just yet. As the face for my son shows on the screen I don't stop my tears from falling as his story is told. (This is book one, Io's Cursed Betrayal).When the story of his life ends i don't bother speaking to them as i start the next show. Now that they understand their beginning it is time for them to understand mine.

I watch the screen in happiness as I see my younger years played out before me. I was brought up in a loving home until the age of thirteen. My parents had never done anything to hide our powers but instead they embraced them. They taught us to help others as much as we could. When I became a young woman she passed even though we all did everything in our power to try to save her.

My father, sick in his grief, sought out things that would make him happy in her death. He became full of greed and he used us to do it. Instead of when our powers had once helped our people he now used it to keep them under his thumb. Simple tasks from us had to be paid for instead of given out of love. When people stopped traveling for our aid he brought them to us with promises of marriage. I was the first to be wedded off. He didn't know that I would make sure to be the last.

Having fallen in love with my husband I parted with my siblings. Not knowing if they would have the same fate, I begged them to leave and to make lives of their own. I did not want them to be faced with the decisions that I made. With our parting we all made a promise. It was the very promise that sealed the fate in the path that I created. We promised to never have offspring. We wanted this so that no one could ever use their powers as ours had been used by our father. Until my spell no one knew that I had broken that very promise.

The regret of that decision has stayed with me all my life. I felt like I had betrayed my kin in having my son who I loved with all my heart. I shunned them and kept them out of my life so that they would never know. However, in the time of my pain and need, they still stayed by my side. As the rainbow of our powers from my spell fades from the screen I wipe the tears from my eyes as I finally approach them.

"Over one hundred years ago I made a choice out of anger. It is that same choice that has resulted in the creation of each species. It is the same choice that i have stayed here in this place with my family to rectify. It is the same choice in which you are unknowingly a part of" i tell them honestly. I have practiced this speech for so long that it is a relief to finally give it as I look at their confused faces.