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FORTY-FIVE

FORTY-FIVE

"How are you?"

Vivian looked towards the doorway where Dee's head was all she could see in the crack he'd made. "Scared."

Concern crossed his features as he entered the room, closing the door behind him. "Of them?"

Vivian shook her head, moving over on the bed so that Dee could join her. But then she sighed. "I don't know. The dracan are fighting over whether to stay of not. The angel has made our friends attack us, killing them. What if he sends more of them? What if he sends James and Piper? I don't think I could just watch Ashley kill them."

Sitting on the bed next to her, he gripped her hand in his. "I don't think he'll send humans again, Vivian. If anything, he'll be going back and requesting for angels."

Vivian smiled, running her fingers gently along his knuckles. "Thanks for scaring me, Dee."

He grinned at her as he rolled from his sitting position to lay next to her. "You're welcome, my rumag."

Shaking her head, Vivian couldn't stop the smile that Dee just seemed to be able to make her do. But then her smile dropped.

"Ashley did something to my memories," Vivian announced, feeling Dee tense faster than a cheetah could run. "She... not numbed, but she's made very thing easier to accept. Easier to think about."

Dee's body relaxed. "About Suresha?" his voice was quiet when he asked.

Vivian nodded instead of saying anything, moving closer to his warmth. His arm wrapped around her. Holding her close.

They were quiet for a few moments when Dee asked a question that made Vivian blink at the strangeness. "Do you know why Ashley's got vampyre's dragging mattress' downstairs?"

After blinking stupidly at him, Vivian responded. "I didn't know they were. I've just been trying to focus on their auras."

While he looked at her in confusion, he didn't ask the question that was in his gaze. Why would she do that? "What do you see?" he asked instead.

"Ravin... black. It's so black it hurts. It's like he has a thick shield around him. But it's so thick it hurts. Ash–"

"Are you okay?" Dee asked before she could continue.

Vivian smiled. "I'm fine. Ashley, however is... there's nothing. There is absolutely nothing around her. It's so peaceful."

Dee frowned at that, snuggling her closer. "Is it because of the bonds?"

"Huh?"

"Ashley's comfortable for you to see, Ravin, connected to you from Ashley is harmful. What about the vampyre's and Damon?"

"I only see wings from Damon, he's shielding. The vampyre's don't really have an aura, I only see their shielding. I think Ravin's just shielding, really hard."

"Do you know why?"

"Well he didn't seem to like the fact that he was bound to Ashley." Suddenly, Vivian grinned.

Dee leant back, weary. "What?"

"Guess what?" she said, moving closer, hovering her face near his.

He raised a brow. "What?"

"We're official."

Dee growled. "We've been official since I first told you everything."

"But Ashley couldn't see it then. She can see it now."

"See what? And she was asleep then."

"Our bond. And I meant when she first woke. I think my fear of Suresha kept it from completely completing. But now..."

Dee grinned.

"The two remaining ellengæst shred the humans like they were nothing. However, because the angel was friends with some of the humans that were sent, five were left alive to attack from the inside."

"And?" Ltiradon asked Dtiroya who was telling the tale of what had happened in the humans realm.

"The humans were changed to vampyre," Dtiroya continued. "Diryan no longer has any control over any of them. He requested angelic backup." And she was furious. It was easy to see that the Archangel of Destruction didn't like giving this news. That one of her own failed such a simple task. Kill the ellengæst, that was all he had to do.

It was Ftirre, the Archangel of Fire who spoke next. "She's getting stronger by the hour. We need to choose now."

"But will back up really help?" Btireaut, the Archangel of Beauty, wondered. "Who is bound to? An angel, an ellengæst, five of a new species that shouldn't exist, and thousands of vampyre's, that, if Diryan's report is true, are all heading for Northampton. And lets not forget the dracan. They are asking for war, but will an angel from each of us be enough?"

"Are you suggesting we send an army, Btireaut?" Ltiradon asked him.

"Of course not, the vampyre's are easily slain. The angel is new to his powers, he would be useless. The dracan are split with the offer you gave them to send them home, we only have to worry about one creature who can draw on all of the other's strengths until even we may struggle."

"She will never have the amount of power we hold," Dtiroya growled out her disagreement.

"Yet," Btireaut started. "She accomplished what Ktirow spend millennia after millennia trying to create in a few thousand years. Life. Who are we to say how strong she is now with all her bonds?"

"Why are you defending her?" Dtiroya demanded.

Btireaut shook his head. "I am merely pointing out that she is not once she once was. She is strong with only one weakness, her mate."

"So we take her mate," Ftirre said in conclusion.

"No," Ltiradon shot down the idea. "We won't have a chance. She's already teaching her mate how to scout the sky's with his mind, we don't know what else she's teaching him."

"So we send an army?" Ftirre questioned. "Command them to kill the ellengæst of æ."

Ltiradon nodded. "It seems like the best option. Jtirgees?"

Jtirgees blinked his pure white eyes at those around the table, as though returning back to the present. "Two angels from each Archangel."

  

Ltiradon nodded before looking around the table. "Now, where are Ktirow and Htirifve?"

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