Chapter 38-A Date with Destiny

I open my eyes to find myself in a room filled with books. Light filters in from above and I look to see an endless sky. Looking around confused, I wonder if my father sent my soul in the wrong place.

"Sorry, little wolf but I intervened for a moment." A childish voice has me turning to face a girl about fourteen years old as she carefully writes in an old leather-bound book. Her hand flies over the pages, her face filled with focus on her task and I wait silently for her to be finished. With the slam of her book closing, I take a few steps forward.

"Who are you?" I ask, watching the girl tentatively. Her violet eyes are soft and all-knowing, as if this girl is someone who has lived many adventures. She stares at me with a serene smile, her little body slowly walking towards me until we are standing just a foot apart. She takes in my appearance from head to toe.

"I'm glad I saved you as a baby. You deserve to live with how you saved everyone." She giggles as she takes my hand before leading me down the hall and past rows and rows of books. With astonishment, I turn to read every title I can, realizing they were names of wolves and other beings alike that have lived, with dates of their birth and death on the spines. All of these books are destinies lived and completed, and I itch to read just one.

“If you open them, your soul with be transported into the body of that destiny and whatever you do there, will change the book. So I advise you to stay away.”

The little girl states with a sly smile, her words keeping me far away from those books now.

"I haven't thanked you yet for saving the children, Alice and Blake. As I'm sure you've noticed, Alice has a gift. The truth is, I intervened when she was born. She should have died.”

The girl changes the topic, her body nearly tripping over a stack of nameless books before I pull her into my arms and I look her over for any injuries.

“Whoops, forgot those were there. Anyway, when I saved her I left a small amount of my power inside her. She's used it for the greater good, and for you to take care of her and her brother makes me proud." The answer to my question of how Alice obtained her power of reading and sensing auras is answered and I turn to stare once again at the teenage girl. A sense of familiarity fills me as I look at her, the girl continuing our journey to wherever she is taking me until we are in front of another field of moonflowers. Just inside sits a desk with two new books, their pages open to just the beginning. I want to read them, but the girl beside me keeps me from walking forward.

"If you haven't guessed who I am yet, I am the Goddess of Destiny, Morai.”

She says quietly, her violet eyes looking at me as her smile slowly fades.

“I always wanted to meet the little wolf pup I had saved all those years ago, and you are everything I hope you would live up to be. Crystalline, your destiny is not over and these two stories before me are a brand new beginning to your life. Take care of the little ones growing inside you, because I can’t wait to read their destinies as they grow. You'll make an amazing mother." The Goddess smiles at me as she sits me in a chair. I had already known I am pregnant thanks to my sister, but to know that I am pregnant, and with twins at that, has me smiling. My hand unconsciously rests on my flat stomach, and the idea of it growing with mine and Albot's pups fills me with happiness.

Morai asks me to stay with her for some time before my soul returns to my body, the little Goddess wanting to get to know me. With tea now placed before us and a plate of cookies, we chat about everything from what paths I could have led on my destiny leading up until now, to why she chose that moment when my adoptive mother found me to release me from my stasis.

“The time just felt right. You had wolves who could train you and I felt Coro’s power weaken. If I had woken you any earlier, he would have killed or corrupted you.”

She answers honestly before taking a sip of her third cup of tea. I mull her words over, realizing that she is right. Coro was centuries old, his blood creating Soulless to control in his army. He had weakened himself to a state where my own power could overcome him.

“What about Albot? What happened to us meeting now?”

I decided to ask, thinking about my mate, who is probably worried sick about me right now.

"Albot was originally your soulmate when you two were first born. Unfortunately, he was killed by a Rogue just after you were kidnapped when he was just two years old. I kept his soul close to me until he could be reborn and the two of you could meet properly. Everything that happened was supposed to happen." She answers patiently, a mischievous smile on her lips. I want to ask more, to learn more about the destinies of others and how her role works, but after a sip of my own tea, dizziness takes over me.

“What’s… What’s happening?”

I ask, placing my hand on top of my forehead as the room slightly tilts.

"It's time for you to return to your body, Little One. I will be watching over you, so do not worry." Once again, I grow drowsy, and a peaceful sleep soon welcomes me into its embrace before I can say goodbye to Morai.