Matter of our Hearts (Part 3)
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Shakira looks at me with a smile on her face. “Although I knew beforehand that you’re going to be surprised by the revelation, I wasn’t quite sure about the exaggeration.”
“Of course, I was so surprised, you never told me that you know my father.”
“I’m a thousand years old sorcerer, although a hybrid, from a Weredeer mother and a sorcerer’s father, but my power came almost from the branch of the sorcerer ancestors.”
“You’re a hybrid? Although I’m not surprised,” I said, while sipping the tea once again, I turn around to see Shakira, a curious expression downing my face, “Why did you tell me this?”
“What do you mean?” Asked Shakira with a gullible face, though I’m quite sure is just an act.
“I mean, you told me that you knew about my father, and be truthful about your origin. Why me?”
Shakira just looking at me, there’s no other sound coming from her mouth. She smiled and continued to sip her tea, until, she finally spoke.
“You know, I met your father when I was just a young girl, he visited my father, they were a good friend back then.”
“Wait for a second, you’re a one thousand years old elven, how old was my father, back then?”
Yet again, Shakira just smiled at me and sipped her tea. I guess, I just have to wait for her to speak.
“Your father is a very handsome elven, you have his eyes.” Said Shakira, avoiding my question, “He was a gentleman, and so powerful.”
“So, my father also has?”
“Bi-color eyes? Yes? The same blue and gold color eyes.”
“He was a powerful high Vampyr?”
“He is a powerful high Vampyr.” Corrected Shakira.
“How powerful is my father?”
Shakira smiled at me, she put her teacup, and before she walks away, turn her head and said. “Powerful enough to destroy half of the Humatora.”
Chills came down to my spine, I don’t know if she was jesting or maybe it is the truth. Just how powerful is my father?
“Sabine? What are you doing here?”
I saw Josiah walking toward me. He takes a seat and looks at the teacup. “I see that you’re having a nice time chatting with Shakira?”
“You’re her friend, indeed, you do know about her morning habit.”
He chuckled and take a seat in Shakira’s place. “Are you doubting me? Oh come on, I never lied, especially at Riftan.”
“You care so much about Riftan, aren’t you?”
He poured himself a cup of tea, I can see his mouth smiling. “Yes, I do care a lot about him. But, enough about Riftan and I, what about you and him… I mean you and the two of them?”
I can sense that Josiah’s tried to avoid my question, but, then again, it wasn’t my place to be so noisy about someone else business.
“We were finally making things work, Riftan accepted Rylan as part of my mate bond, with some terms, of course.”
“That’s Riftan that I know.” Said Josiah with a smile.
“Though, I have my doubted, I mean, is this going to be last?”
“Sabine, every relationship has its ups and downs, yours with all of your mates will face the same difficulty all of the married couples have, maybe even more.” Josiah said to me, while he is staring at the morning sky, he then took a glance at my face, and smile warmly, “Trust your mate, Sabine, in human realm, marriage or what you called mate bound, is a compromise between partners.”
“So, a mate bound is a marriage in the human realm?”
“Yes, for a female mate we call it, wife, and for a male mate, we said, husband.”
“So, Riftan and Rylan are my… husbands?” Mumbled me, my face beginning to blush, “I Kind of like those words.”
The shining yellow sun is already high up in the sky. Josiah and I are going in a separate ways, he goes to the main compound, and I was going back to my pavilion. I saw Rylan already waking up and enjoying his breakfast, he saw me and a smile came automatically on his face.
“Morning.”
“Morning, almost noon, for someone who’s having a problem, you seem comfortably sleeping.”
He snorted. “Trust me, for someone with a past like mine, this kind of problem is just a small thing to have.”
“Your past? What was it like?” I Asked Rylan with a curiosity.
He seems reluctant, and with a bitter smile, he said. “Maybe next time, I will tell you my story, alright?”
I nodded my head and together we enjoyed the breakfast. Riftan came around, not long after.
“What are we going to do for today?” Asked Riftan while munching his food.
“I don’t know, reading books? I have heard from Josiah, that the oracle has a huge library, I want to take a look.”
“You like to read? Riftan and Rylan asked with awe.
“Yes, I love to read, is it so hard to believe?”
“Well, yes, because you never told me about it, and I never saw you with a book in your hand.” Said Riftan, still doubting me.
“Oh, for hell!! You never saw me with one, because I need to leave everything behind except for my pouch, where is it? By the way.”
“I have it in my bag, I’ll give it to you after I finished my breakfast.”
“Alright, you two should enjoy the breakfast, peacefully and I will go to the library, follow me when you’re finished here.”
I left the two of them behind, walking alone to the main compound, and asked one of the oracle apprentices, for directions to the library. She took me to the library, and I am so impressed, there is the variety of books, and also tombs, and every clan lore that you can imagine.
“You like to read?”
I see Shakira, sitting in one of the pews beside a window. One of the books is in her lap.
“Yes, not as much as the time that I could have thought, but I read whenever I could.”
“Then, this library is yours for two days, just do not goes to the forbidden section, alright?”
I smile from ear to ear, and gratefully said my thanks to Shakira. Shakira is reading her book, once again, while I search for some interesting books, regarding the Humatora kingdom. I was humming a song that my mother loved to sing.
“That song, I knew the song.”
“Really? My mother used to sing the song, especially when she… She misses my father.” I said to Shakira with a bitter smile.
“I am so sorry, I never intended for you to remember about your late mother.”
“Wait, I never told you that my mother was already gone.”
Smiling mysteriously, she then said. “I just knew it, dear.”
“I see.”
“Now, do you know the lyric of the song?”
“Yes, remembered every word of it.”
“Would you mind signing it, for me?”
I got quiet, this is the first time I see her so interested in something, and I said to her. “Alright.”
I begin to sing, as best as I could.
“There’s once two pieces of stones, one black, one white…
The black stones created the left and below, while the white stones created the right and upper…
There are other pieces from the stones, they become five colorful stones…
The five colorful stones go to left, below, right and upper…
One stone becomes the middle guarding the other…
The black stone and the white stone now feel complete…”
“Ah, the story of the four realms.” Said Shakira, after I finished singing the song.
Before Shakira answered my question, the library door jar opened, and Riftan came inside the room.
“Sabine, here’s the pouch that you need.”
He handed me my pouch when another hand took the pouch from Riftan’s hand. It was Shakira, she look carefully at my pouch, and asked me a question. “Who makes this pouch?”
“It was my mother, he sew the three roses, herself.”
“I see, did you know what symbol is this?”
“Uhm… No.”
Shakira handed my pouch back and then said. “Dear, this is your father’s insignia.”
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