Page 49 of Thorulf
Chapter Nineteen
“REVNA.” JADE STOODwhen a familiar woman appeared. Her sense of familiarity wasn’t just from seeing her through Maya’s mind either but because sheknewher. Had called her friend. Where some might be put off by the head seer’s haunting beauty and fiery skin, not Jade. She closed the distance and smiled. “How did Ieverforget you?”
“Now, that is one of the few things I can answer in all this.” Revna looked at her with affection then frustration. “Our minds have been tampered with a great deal. Mine to the point I thought you might have been allied with the enemy.” She shot Thorulf a mildly apologetic look. “Now, it seems I might have been mistaken.”
“Aremistaken,” Thorulf corrected.
This explained a lot. Thorulf's mood shifts. Why Revna had thought he had an unknown dark side.
“I agree.” Dagr blinked in surprise and looked at Jade in a whole new way. “Jade?” His eyes whipped to Thorulf in shock. “I remember her! Though I never met her, you talked about her all the time when we were younger.” He shook his head, baffled. “How could I have forgotten about that?” His gaze softened on her. “He loved you very much. Only ever you.”
Overwhelmed by emotions yet again and unsure how to respond, Jade merely nodded in return and focused on Revna. Tried to understand. “Who tampered with our minds?” She urged the seer to join them at the fire. “Mórrígan or Carman?”
“Definitely Carman. Using Mórrígan was just a means to throw you off her scent.” Revna glanced between Thorulf and Jade. “But not just Carman was involved.”
“No, not just her,” came a dark murmur before Loki appeared. “Another son.”
Carman’s sons were no joke. Where Darkness had been trapped by Maya and Dagr in Mt. Galdhøpiggen’s underbelly, her other sons, Violence, and Evil were still on the loose. Or, should she say, on the loose among the Celtic gods because they shouldn't be here on Norse territory.
“How did Carman bounce back so fast from the power Dagr and I threw at her?” Maya began before she seemed to figure it out. “There was no need to bounce back.” She looked between Thorulf and Jade as well. “This has been a long game.”
“According to what I finally got out of her son, Darkness, that’s exactly what she’s been doing,” Loki confirmed. “Toying with Thorulf and Jade since they were children.” He eyed Revna with blatant lust and nodded hello. “Seer.”
Though Revna merely nodded in return, there was no missing the uptick in fire curling over her skin. Jade might have loved watching these two flirt on Maya’s adventure, but right now, it was the last thing she was in the mood for. Not when she felt so much confusion and frustration. What had been done to her? Thorulf? How violated had they actually been? Because she could say with absolute certainty, nothing felt worse.
“I’m not sure which of you I want answers from first.” Jade looked from Loki to Revna. “I suppose we’ll start with the less threatening of what I sense coming. Why did you and I forget each other, Revna? Why did Dagr forget me?” She shook her head. “And why is everyone only just remembering now?”
“I suspect because you’ve crossed a barrier with Thorulf and are closer to your truth.” Revna tossed Thorulf a womanly look of approval before gesturing at Dagr and Maya. “As your sister well knows, intimacy tends to open the eyes of dragons coming together.” She shrugged a shoulder. “Or, in your case, coming back together.”
“So having sex with Thorulf then?” Jade asked, not embarrassed in the least Revna knew what they'd been up to. In fact, she’d be willing to scream it from the highest mountaintop where the purple she-bitch was sure to hear it loud and clear.
“Ja.” Revna sauntered to the edge of the cliff and eyed the sky as though she wanted the purple dragon to know as well. “When you made that connection with Thorulf, when you understood how close you had once been, not just of the soul but of the flesh, a veil was lifted.” She glared at the bubbling black clouds in the distance. “Not just over your mind but also mine and Dagr's.” She glanced back at Thorulf. “And I suspect your parents, Thorulf, for you told them as much about Jade as you told your biological mother and Dagr.”
“I wondered about that.” He sat beside Jade, squeezed her hand, and met her eyes. “That means I tried to get you to the Fortress. I’m sure of it.”
“You did,” Revna confirmed. She shook her head and turned her back to the horizon. “But it was as impossible to do as her meeting anyone you cared about.” She arched her brows at Loki. “And I suspect you now know why.”