Chapter 38 : Reunion

Ayda's POV "So now you know…" We'd sat together on the couch as Sebastian told me of Kathrine. I…I did not know what to think. Some of the story's elements rang true. Kathrine's lover dying at the hand of Kostas, Theron's diplomatic beliefs, Luna Arianna's death from what Maud had told me.... But Kathrine being unable to shift and doing… whatever it was that she'd done at Court? Shadow wolves? Distorted air? Magic? That seemed… illogical at best. Religious experiences were one thing, but what Sebastian claimed wasn't seen in the natural world. The work of the Goddess, maybe. But then I remembered my experiences with the supernatural at the temple. The Goddess had spoken to me, hadn't she? Knew things that were personal to me in ways Medea wouldn't have known, not consciously at least. True, when I'd left the temple, I tried to make sense of it. Was it an actual conjuration, or was it a careful con constructed through years of observation? I wanted to be