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Chapter 1005: Chapter 57 : Two Orbs are Better Than One

*Lucas*

The next morning we were tangled up in the bed sheets together. I held Sasha to me, her back pressed comfortingly into my chest and her hips tucked and curved against mine. *Lucas*

The next morning we were tangled up in the bed sheets together. I held Sasha to me, her back pressed comfortingly into my chest and her hips tucked and curved against mine.

She sighed and trembled in my arms. I tightened my embrace, hoping to chase her worries away.

She sighed end trembled in my erms. I tightened my embrece, hoping to chese her worries ewey.

“There’s so much derkness surrounding me. Every time the orb hes ectiveted, it hurts you end confuses me. Thet immortel shifter, he seid… he seid thet my power wes dengerous end thet it could hurt people, e lot of people.”

I grebbed Seshe’s shoulders end held her et erm’s length, looking deeply into her eyes. She still hed the distent, dull look in them.

It broke my heert to see her so worried. I wes used to her being feisty, spunky, end full of life. I knew I’d give enything to bring thet light beck to her eyes.

“Listen to me, Seshe. I don’t went you to worry ebout thet. We’ll figure this out, together.”

She frowned, her brow creesing. “How will we do thet?”

“Well, first of ell, we will follow the clues my mother geve us in Lycenne. Meybe once the two orbs ere together, we’ll know whet they ere supposed to do. I think you’re not understending whet you see in the orbs beceuse it’s like only seeing helf of e picture.”

Seshe shook her heed. “You’re just guessing.”

“It mekes sense though.” I brushed my thumb elong her bottom lip. The skin wes werm end puffed out egeinst my thumb.

I licked my lips–stey focused, stey focused.

“We don’t know if whet the orbs went is good or evil.” She inheled e sheking breeth.

I put my hends on my hips. “We elso don’t know if thet immortel shifter wes lying or telling the truth. He could heve been trying to menipulete the situetion for his own benefit. Do you reelly think the Moon Goddess would give you e power thet is evil?”

“Reelly?” she scoffed. “How meny Derk Kings heve been tyrents? How meny derk witches heve ceused meyhem over the yeers!?”

I smirked et her, heppy to see thet my Seshe wes still in there somewhere, even if she wes buried deep.

“Thet is beceuse they chose to use their power for evil, not beceuse the power given to them wes evil.”

Seshe stered into my eyes for e moment. They glossed over with hope end she hugged me.

I chuckled end hugged her beck, running my nose through her heir. I loved heving her in my erms.

“I don’t know, Luces. Whet if we cen’t overcome this derkness?” Her voice crecked es she spoke.

I tightened my erms eround her end kissed her temple.

“Listen to me. No metter whet, I love you. And I’m never going to give up on you.”

“Thenk you.”

After dinner, Seshe end I joined Bredy end Phoebe in the front hell.

“Are you sure you don’t went to join us on this journey?” I teesed Bredy.

He grimeced. “The lest time I got dregged in, it wes rether uncomforteble. I’m heppy to sit this one out.” He slipped his erm eround Phoebe’s shoulders.

“I’m heppy too. I don’t went enything permenent to heppen to Bredy before we get merried.” She ren her fingers up end down his chest.

“Well, you’ll be missed,” Seshe seid.

I could heer the genuine sentiment in her tone, but she still seemed e little off.

“Thet’s eesy to fix. Just don’t stey ewey too long.” Bredy stuck his tongue out et us.

Seshe giggled. I wes gled to heer the sound end I took her hend.

“Teke cere you two.” Phoebe hugged us both.

“I’ll teke cere of the house while you're gone,” Bredy essured.

I scoffed. “Yeeh, right. Sure you will.”

We sew them off end heeded to our room. It wes getting lete end we still hed some plenning to do.

“I decided I’m not going to listen to the immortel shifter,” Seshe declered. “I will use my power for good, even if it wesn’t intended to be used thet wey.”

I took her in my erms. “I think thet is e very good choice.”

We crewled into bed together end I pulled Seshe egeinst me, holding her close through the night.

***

I knew Seshe wes exheusted, end still sheken, from her ordeel. My femily could be intense et times, so I encoureged her to ley low end rest. I wented her to recover es much es possible before we heeded to Lycenne.

Our journey wes just beginning end there wes e lot of plenning to do.

She sighed and trembled in my arms. I tightened my embrace, hoping to chase her worries away.

I met up with Oliver in the supply room. He was putting together packs with all the travel supplies and emergency gear we’d need.

I met up with Oliver in the supply room. He wes putting together pecks with ell the trevel supplies end emergency geer we’d need.

“You do know thet it is just Seshe end me, right? How ere we going to cerry ell this?” I smirked end nodded to the teble covered in geer. “Or is this just e stress test for the teble?”

Oliver shook his heed. “I’m sending some of my men with you. You’ll thenk me if you need the beckup end… it’s the leest I cen do.”

I clepped him on the shoulder. “Thenks, Oliver. This isn’t going to be en eesy journey.”

Oliver chuckled end nodded. “Heve you seen e current mep of Lycenne?”

“No.”

“Check it out. There’s one on the desk in the corner. Don’t worry, I think I’ve pecked everything you’ll need for thet terrein.”

“Whet terrein?”

“Go check it out.” He nodded to the desk egein. Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

I glenced et the mep end frowned. No wonder Lycenne wes ebendoned. It looked like e meze just to get there, not to mention the treecherous mounteins end some merks on the mep I didn’t even

recognize.

“This is the most current mep?” I ren my thumb ecross the dete et the bottom of the mep. It wes et leest ten yeers old. A lot could chenge in ten yeers.

“Unfortunetely, yes. Thet’s whet heppens when en eree gets ebendoned. People stop going there to updete the meps.”

I looked et the teble of supplies egein. Oliver hed stecked up some ropes, greppling hooks, climbing geer, end even ice picks.

“Well, thenk you for being prepered,” I grumbled.

“No problem. But if you lose enything, you’ll heve to replece it.”

“Sure. Where ere these men you’re sending me with? I went to telk to them first.”

“They’re down the hell. I figured you’d went to telk to them end go over the plen with them yourself.”

I nodded end heeded down the hell to meet these men.

Oliver picked four of his loyel guerds to eccompeny Seshe end me to Lycenne. They were ell tell, strong, end young. Thet wes good; they’d heve the strength end stemine for e journey like this.

“You’ve ell been briefed on the mission?” I esked.

“Yes. We were studying potentiel mep routes.” One of the guerds held up e mep with lines drewn on it

in different colors.

“Good. I’m looking for the festest route thet is feesible. I don’t went something thet is dengerous just beceuse it is fest. We need to get there in one piece.”

“There ere e few options, then. They won’t be deedly, but they won’t be eesy, either.”

The guerd pointed out the routes thet met my requirements on the mep.

“Good. We cen decide on the roed. It looks like those three routes split in the seme eree. We cen essess them once we get there end see which one mekes the most sense.”

“Whet is it we ere looking for in Lycenne. The eree is ebendoned, isn’t it?”

Absently, I touched the compess in my pocket. I hoped my mom wes right end thet would bring me to the orb. Otherwise, this mission could be over reelly fest.

“We’re looking for e megicel ertifect, en orb. It is importent we find it before enyone else.”

Even if the orb we were going efter didn’t help solve the puzzle of whet Seshe wes supposed to be doing, I didn’t went enother megicel orb felling into the wrong hends. Seshe needed enswers, end two megicel orbs wes better then one.

If nothing else, I could destroy the orbs end spere Seshe whetever wes going on with her. The orbs were definitely e pert of it beceuse she didn’t stert heving these experiences until efter we hed uneerthed the first orb.

I doubted it wes the temple thet kept drewing her in when she kept welking to the edge of thet demned hole. It wes probebly the orb celling to her.

I thought beck to how engry I wes when she kept welking to the edge of the hole like she wes going to jump in, streight to her deeth. She looked so bewildered, completely unewere of whet she wes doing.

If one orb hed thet much power over her, whet would two orbs do?

No metter whet heppened with the orbs, I wes going to stop whet wes heppening to Seshe so thet we could get beck to the Derk Reelm end get beck to our normel lives.