Fate and Destiny (The Fated Series, #2)

Chapter 21 - Rohana - This Is A Headache

"You're sure that this is okay? It doesn't change the timeline?"

"For the hundredth time, no, it won't change the timeline. In fact, it may even aid it."

Dee and I are perched on branches of a tall black tree, watching as the redhead and healer speak quietly to the female assassin in the Inferno Clearing. We can't enter the charred grounds, so we can't very well hear what they're saying, but we know the gist of it.
Dee found me a few cycles after we lost the Mater Natura saying that there was something we needed to do. Me having been already fed up with her and Willa's grand plan of doing fucking nothing, I was more than anxious to do something.

She misted to the cabin and I followed without a second thought. I paused time at her command, the sun not yet rising but close to it. She gave me a piece of parchment with a protection rune on it and told me to find some rocks and form the symbol on the western side of the cabin. Seeing as it was the protection sigil, I didn't refuse. Then she told me to burn the trust sigil on the northern side. She got Mak to shift into a macaw and form the loyalty sigil with a string she had Tanith make for the unity symbol, tying branches together with twine or breaking them. She made the lines thick enough so that they would allow the light to shine down on the eastern side, but not too thick to where someone would look up and notice it.

The traitor symbol had to be done using Willa's blood. She's the only one with the bloodline and power to keep Sibella from revealing her location to Xaxias. Three small sigils surround it, all done in my, Dee's, and Mak's blood. They ensure that Sibella will never see the traitor sigil, leaving everyone else to see it perfectly fine. They can't, however, see the smaller sigils, but that's only because if the healer saw them she may be able to touch them and track where we are, and Willa's blood is too strong for her to do that.

For cycles, the healer has kept her discovery to herself, and when I found her showing the redhead, Dee practically leaped with joy. She misted here twenty minutes ago, nearly making me fall off of the branch that was big enough to hold me, but not both of us. I had to mist onto the one above it to keep it from snapping. She didn't seem at all concerned about the fact that we both nearly got ourselves discovered, and seeing as I'm now banned from taking a shift to watch over Darius, this is all I have left. I wasn't happy about it, but I bit my tongue. Hard.

"What's the timeline?" I ask, trying to keep my mind off of the splitting headache I'm beginning to get from being near the Inferno Clearing for so long. I still have six hours left of my shift.

"If I told you, there'd be no timeline."

"So you're saying that if we fuck this up the world will end."

"Or something awfully close to it." The silver in her eyes flickers, but they don't fully set.

"Seems rather dull."

"It's a possibility of the future Rohana, it's always rather dull."

"So then your power is dull?"

"You're dull."

"You can say that again."

She gives me an exasperated look, and I stick my tongue out at her, scrunching my nose in a way that she doesn't like because it's childish. Rolling her eyes, she stands casually on her branch and expertly balances on it as she walks to my side. I'd be concerned about one of the women below spotting her, but I trust her to know that none of them will look this way. She folds her arms on my branch by my hip, settling her chin on top of them. I always thought her tan skin, brown eyes, and light brown hair were rather basic, but she always makes the features look like an effortless beauty. I envy her for it.

"Yesterday was only the start of the beginning, and as far as I can see, the end is not so close as you're hoping." I sigh, having already assumed as much. "From now until then, our days will be filled with everything but dullness. That I can tell you without changing the timeline."