"Sooo, tell , my baby... Do you have any girlfriends yet?"
"...I am sorry, what?"
Alden muttered in confusion.
What the hell is she talking about?
He had imagined a mont about eting his long-lost mother like this once or twice before. He had even imagined the things she might say, the questions she might ask but never, in any of those imaginations, had he expected this.
Like, what the hell was going on?
"Ahh, your reaction already answers it." She sighed dramatically as if disappointed. "But then again, your father was the sa dense rock as you. So I guess it’s not surprising even if you don’t have any girlfriends."
Alden frowned.
"Please get to the point and tell where we are and what did you do to Jeremy? And where is Nyx?"
He wasn’t in the mood for jokes.
His first priority was finding Nyx. She had jumped into danger to save him and if anything happened to her because of him... How could he ever forgive himself?
But his mother rely tilted her head, resting her chin on her hand thoughtfully.
"Jeremy? Nyx? Who?"
She asked as though she had never heard those nas before but Alden had seen her. She had appeared at the end and killed Jeremy.
So she should at least know him, right?
"Weren’t you the one who gave that strange technique to Jeremy? The technique he used to try and take over my body? The one where you appeared afterward, condensed him into energy and rged him with ?"
"Ahh, so you an the anchors."
She lightly punched her palm as though she had finally solved so grand mystery.
"Anchors?" Alden asked, completely lost.
What the hell is she even talking about?
"Well, I do owe you so answers, I guess." She smiled. "So let’s start slowly with my introduction. You need to know how cool your mom used to be once upon a ti, you know."
She puffed out her chest proudly before snapping her fingers. The entire world around them froze. The birds, the river, even the sounds and everything else stopped completely.
Then the surroundings shifted, leaving the chairs they sat on unchanged.
The sky above transford into an endless sea of stars and celestial bodies as his mother stood up and walked toward one particular planet that towered over all the others around it as it circled across a massive sun.
"Many years ago, far away from this little world called Eryndor, I was born on that planet. The world ruled by your grandfather, Eidolon Thalyros, The world of Aurelion."
She spoke, pointing at that planet as if discussing events from yesterday.
"Your grandpa is the patriarch of one of the strongest clans in this entire expanse and he possessed an elent others could only dream of wielding — Fate and as his daughter, I inherited the purest affinity for it as well ever since I was a child."
She paused before grinning.
"Though your uncle Mokah was a complete loser in that regard."
She chuckled to herself as if she had made the greatest joke in existence but Alden’s attention had already locked onto sothing else.
"Mokah...?"
He knew that na. It was the guardian of his second Chaos Trial. The monkey Mokah, the one who had reacted to the Dance of Chaos and nearly killed him.
"Ohh, you might have t him already once."
She nodded casually.
"After all, I made sure to pull the threads of fate connecting the two of you before I was captured."
She waved her hand dismissively. "But that’s for later. Now where was I again?"
"Ahh right..."
"My backstory."
She continued her story.
"I was raised with countless expectations placed upon . I was supposed to surpass my father and as if to reinforce that expectation, I awakened my first ability at the age of five."
She looked toward the stars.
"The cursed ability known as Future Sight. It showed fragnts of what had been and what could be and for a long ti, I devoted myself only to perfecting those abilities until..."
Her voice softened.
"I t him."
"Your father."
"His na is Azriel, a wanderer of unknown origin, he began making a na for himself as the greatest prodigy to ever exist with his explosive growth as soon as he defeated one master after another before he ca to Aurelion to challenge my father."
A small chuckle escaped her lips.
"And because I was a fool back then... and because arrogance had been nurtured inside since childhood... I grew jealous of him. How could a re nobody challenge my father? That was my thought."
"So I challenged him."
Her smile turned nostalgic.
"But I couldn’t defeat him. Not even once. Still, I kept challenging him again and again and sowhere along the way, I fell in love."
Alden listened silently. A part of him still felt slightly irritated. None of this explained what he had actually asked but despite that... He didn’t stop listening.
"My father opposed it. He said Azriel was an anomaly, a being without a clear past. He warned to stay away from him."
"So..."
She smiled helplessly.
"...I ran away from ho."
Her eyes drifted toward the endless stars once again.
"I wandered across the expanse with him as we travelled through countless worlds, saved so from tyrants and while doing so, we slowly grew even closer. The worlds we saved began calling us by many nas. Ananke, Seer of Fate, and many more. That was also the sa ti, I acquired the technique I gave to that Jeremy person and that was also the ti... when Caera was born.
Her expression dimd slightly.
"But alongside our boundless happiness, a curse soon followed and I received the first ssage from fate."
"What was the ssage?"
Alden asked curiously.
His mother turned toward him, her eyes slightly distant for a mont.
"...It was about you, Alden."
"The ssage fate had sent... was about you."
[A/N: Also guys, started a New book! Do check it out if you got the ti 😊]
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