Chapter 49: The Story of a Girl
*Cadence Lee (as Hewka) POV*
We made our way back to the city and my nerves were frayed before we were even halfway back. There was a part of me, a large part, that wanted to pretend that I had nothing to say. Rei would obviously know that I was lying, but I could still back out… This was more nerve wracking than getting into battle was, which said a lot about me, I think. Death was something that didn’t scare me, even violent death, because I knew what came afterwards.
What would happen after I told Rei about who I am?
What if she didn’t accept me? Feeling her rejection through the bond would… terrible. I would have to leave into the wild again as well, although that wasn’t too much of a problem. I might even return to my old territory outside of Evergold. It was scary how much that thought appealed to me, it would be so easy to run away from this.
But in the end, I had volunteered to explain myself, I wanted to be understood, and above all, I trusted Rei.
I suppose most people don’t think of stables at an inn as the best place for a serious conversation and out of this world revelations, but it wasn’t like people were spying on us. A little bit of Air Magic was all it would take to keep the sound from traveling too far, and after Rei and Tamlin had helped to take my barding off, I settled in. Where to even begin…?
“Do you believe there are other worlds?” I asked Rei, still trying to formulate my thoughts.
“Chaurl would know better than either of us,” Rei hedged. “But according to the [Priests] the being who created the first gods, The First One, came from ‘Beyond.’ It wouldn’t be strange to imagine worlds outside of our own.”
“I am from another world.”