Free Nephilius - A Walker Saga Book 5 by Jaymin Eve

I
couldn’t imagine that level of immediate acceptance.
    “ I was on
Earth …” Lucy started our story, and then proceeded to fill Malisna
in on the last eighteen years of our li ves. Condensed version. She touched heavily on the
Seventine and everything that had been happening there. The pixies
were very out of the loop of current power struggles. They’d been
stuck here in their little bubble.
    I pulled a large black book from the shelf.
It looked ancient, bound in some type of parchment or animal skin.
I could feel the oils under my fingers, and I hoped it was okay for
me to touch it.
    “That is the book of origin,” Refis said. He
moved closer to my side. “We hold it, but none have the knowledge
any longer to read the information.”
    I wondered if there was anything in there
which might help us fight the Seventine. If it was pixie origin, I
doubted it, but maybe we should see if any Walkers could read the
text. Refis was watching me closely, so I placed it back on the
shelf.
    I realized that Malisna and Lucy had moved
and were standing with us.
    The queen
looked up to meet my gaze. “Pixies were long ago spiritual guides
for Walkers. Our races have been both friends and enemies. But
mostly friends. Lucy’s tale tells me that there was more to the
faerie prophecy than I thought. The fact
that you both ended up in the same place on Earth. Both of you are
important, and you are bonded.”
    That
was interesting and possibly vitally
important information, but right now we didn’t have time for
chatting.
    “I really want to hear more about
pixie-Walker relationships, but we need to leave soon.” I had to
stop my hand reaching for the book again. “I have to get out of
here and collect all seven half-Walkers before the final Seventine
is released.”
    Malisna smiled then. For the first time it
was real and showcased her pure joy. I almost closed my eyes
against the light and love sparkling from her.
    “The blood of my soul, the tears of my loss
and strands of my daughter’s hair bound us to this prison,” she
said. “Now we have all of those thing again to reverse that which I
wrought.”
    Refis inhaled in one long breath. “Yes, Lucy
is the key.”
    “The road to perdition is treacherous. Many
creatures do not want us to be free,” Malisna warned. “I would not
ask this of my daughter after just finding you again.”
    Lucy dropped her eyes and pushed back
strands of hair. “I have no choice. We have to leave.”
    “Don’t you want to be free, Mother?” Refis
looked like a child as he stared up, his vulnerability across his
features.
    “Brother,” Lucy gasped, realization coating
her tone. “You’re my brother.”
    Refis grinned. “Yes. I am. Your much, much
older brother.”
    It was so
strange how parallel Lucy and my stories were. Hidden on Earth,
magical families we knew nothing of, a half-brother, and she’d been
sent to the same compound as me in response to another prophecy. Layer upon layer, the battle to save
the world was complex, twisting and turning. We learned something
new, only to have ten different paths open up to us.
    Lucy and Malisna had started chatting again.
They were desperate to know everything of each other. I could see
that by the way their voices trilled and hurried over each piece of
information. Right now Lucy was telling them about Colton.
    “You know he’s going to think you’re dead,”
I reminded her. “We need to get out of here before he does
something stupid.”
    Walkers aren’t exactly known for their calm,
rational thinking when it comes to their mates.
    “Oh, eff,” Lucy said, “I’m new to this mate
business. I forgot how insane he’d go when he couldn’t sense me any
longer.”
    She reached out and gripped her mother and
brother’s hands.
    “Please show us the way out of here.”
    She was finally pulling herself together,
knowing we needed to leave.
    “I cannot let you go alone,” Malisna said.
“Give me a moment.” Just before she left she