“Fuck a rubber duck! Danu! Get your Goddess ass here, now!” I shouted, but nothing happened. “This sucks! It’s worse than sifting! Ouch,” I said as pain coiled in my stomach.
“Synthia, what aren’t you telling me?” Ryder asked as he moved to help me up.
“I feel her pain, and it is raw and fucking beautiful,” Asrian said as he came around the corner of the nursery doors.
“That’s not good,” I said as I watched his eyes glowing as he fed. From me. My pain was his food of choice at the moment.
“She’s feeling enough pain that I’m full, brother,” Asrian said as he watched me as if he was afraid to let me out of his sight. I stepped back, not out of fear, but because Ryder looked as if he wasn’t sure if he should attack, or be amused.
“Describe it,” Ryder growled after a moment of uneasy silence had passed.
“I’ve never felt anything like it before,” Asrian said smoothly as he stepped closer, his lime and grass-green eyes glowing like a beacon. He was normally pretty reserved aside from the occasional smart-ass comment; right now he looked as if he was intrigued.
“Stop looking at me like I’m a Fairy buffet,” I said, and turned back to Ryder.
“You are,” he said sheepishly as he rubbed the back of his neck.
“Adam,” Ryder said as he watched me. “Synthia, wait here for me.”
“We need to go,” I pointed out.
“Yes, but we need a plan before we move or take our children anywhere,” he argued and I hated that he had a point.
“Fine, Fairy,” I conceded. He placed a gentle kiss on my forehead and smiled.
“Synthia, try to stay in this room until I get back,” he said as I looked up at him.
“Do not kiss my forehead, please,” Adam said with a wink at me.
“Why would I kiss you?” Ryder asked and I hid the smile as he looked at Adam in confusion.
“You wouldn’t,” Adam said with a wide grin.
“Watch her,” Ryder said and sifted out.
I felt like I was jonesing for a fix, and that Tree was it. I’d pretty much told Ryder that we had to leave his castle unprotected and just get everyone to the Tree. I knew I was asking a lot, but we needed as many beings as possible to be at the Tree for Danu to gain her full strength and power to bless our children.
The Tree being enshrouded in ice was still a problem, and yet I knew somehow if I could just get there, that we could fix it. Ristan disappeared right after I had come out of the vision, so I couldn’t ask him about the visions and his sounded as if they were different from the one I had.
I needed to speak to Danu, and she hadn’t answered my call for days. She was probably dealing with her spousal issue, or whatever you wanted to call it. Hopefully she’d had more luck than we had if she was looking for a definitive way to remove the spell on the Tree. If she could break her husband, we could have a huge advantage for the upcoming war.
“Synthia,” Adam said as he held his long tapered fingers out for me as he pulled out one of the chairs in the nursery.