~the ArchAngel wearily arrives home to Elysium, walking up the wide stairs, her head still ringing from the night's events, trying to piece it all together, mindful of the changes within her. She glances back at the Soul Warden following her silently, wondering in Heaven's name what is going to happen with this development. SHADAKAUR must be laughing himself silly at what he wrought.....the tearing of not only one bonding but two.
The first one she could understand, but the second one....she sighed, not certain how she was going to take that one. It had been buried in her for so long she had no longer noticed it, but it was there, strong last night and now....an emptiness. She could only begin to imagine what it had done to Nomaad to have it wrenched from him, plunging him into a darkness becoming one of the Demon Lord's Generals.
She continued down the hall, her footsteps deathly silent in the corridor of crystal and sapphire, opening the door to the great hall and she walked in, her Seneschal Damien looking up in askance of the silent man following her. She speaks softly, telling him to find the Soul Warden a room on the same floor as her rooms. At the look on her face, he bows and hurries off.
She sits in a comfortable chair, her eyes looking into the brightly burning fire, almost mesmerized, when she suddenly stands, vanishing.
*
She appears in the Shadows, and as her eyes adjust, she sees the small figure laying next to the boulder sound asleep, his eyes bound with cloth and mud and she smiles softly, kneeling before him, whispering.
"Bright....its Granny Jaeden. Let me take you to Elysium. Why are you wandering around out here in the shadows? You know how difficult it is for little stars to do this." She gently picks up her grandson and smiles as he snuggles next to her and she vanishes, appearing back to Elysium, placing him in the cool clean bed, his clothing now as clean as he is. She pulls up the covering over him, leans down, kissing his forehead and she turns to face the Soul Warden and she smiles, saying but a word, before vanishing once again...."One...."
*
She appears before the tree and kneels down, sighing, seeing her daughter Silk sound asleep, shivering in the night air, the blanket pulled tightly around her. She leans down, lifting the child in her arms, seeing the streaks of the tears on her soft cheeks and she sighs, knowing this would not be any easier on them then it was on her. Standing, she vanishes back to Silk's room in the palace of Elysium and she settles her daughter in the bed, the sleeper now new and whole again and the proper size. The ArchAngel smiles down on her daughter and gestures....in Silk's arms appears her doll Wisher and Jaeden whispers..."You need her now more than I do, Silk." She leans down, kissing her daughter's cheek and turning to the Soul Warden she says...."Two...." and she vanishes once again.
*
The forest murmurs welcome to their Mistress telling her of the man wandering like a loon within them and of his location and she nods, walking to the old oak tree and the boulder, looking down on her son Lendorien and she shakes her head, smiling softly. Gesturing, she teleports them to a room in the palace, Lendorien now clean and dressed in clean night clothing and she leans down, gently touching the black eye, shaking her head, amused a bit and she heals it. She then leans over, kissing her son's cheek and turning to the Soul Warden, she says...."Third and last....."
She walks past him back to the great hall, sitting before the fire, her eyes closed, thinking.
Jaeden StarFire
~Still Guardian/Mother/Granny to her Family~
~Guardian Empress of Elysium~
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