01-07-2018, 10:15 PM
Her eyes burned like green fires. To hear the word pass his lips spread the fire over her skin. She smiled a dark smile, but her voice deepened with reverence.
"Radenyi is sacred, Armande. The Eye watches over, but cannot participate. Rasputin was a seer, too. From his seed came the first Eye, a daughter. Daughters ever since have become the next Eye. Do you understand?"
Whoever was the Eye harbored the child that would become the next. Children among the Khylsty were dangerous. Too many would overwhelm the group, but too few would lead to their extinction. Of them all, though, no children were more important than those born by the Eye.
"The womb of the Eye is like holy ground. Only a chosen seed can enter it. My partner will be selected by the whole group to be the father of the next Eye. Don't you understand? That is why Illarion intervened. It is why I am untouched. My partner has not yet been chosen."
She gripped his hands fiercely. "They have to choose you."
Desperation thrummed her voice. She would be devastated if anyone else but Armande was chosen.
"Radenyi is sacred, Armande. The Eye watches over, but cannot participate. Rasputin was a seer, too. From his seed came the first Eye, a daughter. Daughters ever since have become the next Eye. Do you understand?"
Whoever was the Eye harbored the child that would become the next. Children among the Khylsty were dangerous. Too many would overwhelm the group, but too few would lead to their extinction. Of them all, though, no children were more important than those born by the Eye.
"The womb of the Eye is like holy ground. Only a chosen seed can enter it. My partner will be selected by the whole group to be the father of the next Eye. Don't you understand? That is why Illarion intervened. It is why I am untouched. My partner has not yet been chosen."
She gripped his hands fiercely. "They have to choose you."
Desperation thrummed her voice. She would be devastated if anyone else but Armande was chosen.
The Eye of the Khylsty