Chapter 639
Everyone stared at me for a few seconds, like they were processing what I was saying, and then everyone started talking over each other. “What are you talking about?” Cass waved her hands.
“I hadn’t thought that far, to be honest.” Ronnie walked up. He looked around are small group and his eyes fell on Cass. “Greyson is looking for you.” *
Cass stared for a minute. “Why?”
Ronnie sighed. “Some guards are acting up. The trackers in particular. He needs you to go handle your squad while he deals with his.” He waved off behind the house towards the training rings. “He said he tried to mind–link you about it, but you hadn’t been answering.” He lifted an eyebrow, and Cass blushed.
“I was just excited to see Amy up again.” She looked around at the rest of us. “I can help after.”
I waved her off. “It’s okay. What I have to do, no one can help with. You can go help your mate.”
My dad jogged back out. “Hey Cass, Greyson just mind–linked me looking for you. Says he needs your help at the rings.” He walked over to me. “I know you have been off duty since everything, but he said he really needs your help. I’d appreciate if you could go help him.”
She sighed. “Yeah Alpha. I’ll head over now.” She waved and headed off. I saw her look back once, and she pointed at me as she mouthed, ‘You better catch me up.‘ I laughed and nodded.
Once Cass had walked away, he threw up a sound barrier. I frowned. “What’s wrong?”
Ronnie stepped closer. “We still haven’t found the spy, so we are being extra cautious.”
“Spy?” I looked around. “That’s Cass we are talking about.”
Everyone stared at me for a second before laughing. “Not her, you fool.” My mom bumped my shoulder.
Ronnie shook his head as he looked around the field. “We don’t know who is lurking map. “What’s up with around. Obviously, we don’t think it’s Cass.” He pointed to the that?” I dropped to the ground and opened the map. My chest tugged again, and I knew what I had to do.
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“Van called from the airport.” My dad looked towards the road. “A human convoy, fully armed, is headed up here.
Ronnie spun to look at the road and then back at us. “What are we going to do?”
“We are doing this.” My father pointed to the map. “Well…she is.”
Ronnie dropped into a crouch. “Why did you need a map?” He pointed to the map. How is this going to save us? Are you planning an escape route? We could run, but there is nothing but forest and the Agora.” He looked up. “We can’t leave the Agora to the humans, can we?”
I stared down at the map in my hand. There were about twenty packs in North America. Almost half of them were in Canada. Could my power reach that far?
My grandmother crouched beside me. “You are of the earth, sea, and sky.” Everyone has stopped talking. Her finger traced the outline of the pack lands we were currently on. “This map not only shows you where our people are located, but where their lands stop.” She traced our land again. She grabbed my hand and placed it on the ground. “Dig.” She nodded toward the ground.
I shifted into my claws and dug down. Cool earth closed around my fist as I shifted back. “What is this going to do?”
She chuckled. “Always asking the wrong questions.” She looked up. “Much like your father.” She smacked the back of my head, and I swore I felt it. “Focus.” She patted
the ground. “Focus on connecting to the earth. Feel the dirt. The life it offers. The food, the abundance it is waiting to bear. Feel the moisture of the dirt. The water, and the blood that has soaked into the ground we are standing on.”
I closed my eyes and opened myself to the earth. My magic, in its potted plant, exploded out. The pot fragments flew everywhere as my plant dug itself into the ground of my soul. I felt the moment my magic and the earth connected.
The ground felt alive. Bugs, small animals, and worms all live under the ground. But also the earth itself. I felt every breath it took through the trees. Every shift as it stretched or contracted. The heat coming from her center.
“Gaia,” I heard my voice call out.
“Yes, my child.” A woman’s voice called back, and I nearly pulled my hand free. Her laugh was deep and smooth. It sounded like rocks tumbling down a cliff face but somehow musical. “You called to me, connected to me, and then jumped when I answered.”
“I just didn’t expect…” I trailed off because I sounded stupid even to myself.
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“You didn’t expect me to have a voice?” I opened my eyes and watched as the ground bubbled. A woman with green skin and brown flowing hair stepped out of the ground, earning gasps from everyone. She flung out her hand, and the sound bubble, once clear, turned grey. “Now, no one can spy inside.” She winked.
“Mother Gaia.” My grandmother bowed beside me, and I heard everyone else hit the ground, but the goddess’s eyes never shifted from my face.
“Call to my sons and save your people. Before the scourge of the lands gets here.” She tilted her head and closed her eyes. “You don’t have much time left.”
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