Destinata (Valguard) Read Online Free

her. Why couldn’t you just wait?”
    “Because she deserves to know! And she was asking questions. Her destiny has been hidden from her for far too long. We’re just going to have to help her through it.”
    Kara’s small frail frame moved out of the doorway to let Zane through and she shuffled herself into the lounge and gestured roughly with a wave of her hand for him to make himself comfortable. Her greying hair whipped around her face as the breeze came through the open window, she struggled to tie it back as she sat down across the room from him and started fussing over the mismatched doilies on her side table. The old seer was like this when she was worried – more so when she couldn’t ‘see’ – and Zane knew he would have to stop her from obsessing over the placement of her belongings before it drove her mad.
    He slowly made his way over to where the tired seer sat and placed his hands softly over the top of hers, stopping her from fussing and calming her at the same time.
    “I’m sorry Kara, I really am but there was no way around it. The haze doesn’t work on her, you know that as well as I do. I tried to lie but she knew I was, you’re her grandmother, maybe some of your foresight was gifted to her as well. Either way, it’s done now and we will just have to make do.”
    “My daughter was never supposed to conceive a child, let alone a child to a Valguard. How did everything get so turned around Zane? That poor girl has no idea what is waiting for her. I think it’s time that we were introduced don’t you?”
    Warm tears fell down Kara’s age-lined face and she closed her eyes as Zane wiped them away gently. She leaned into his hand taking respite in the safety and warmth that he offered.
    “Maybe it is time Kara. You’ve been watching from the shadows for too long. It’s time that you met your granddaughter. She has a stubborn streak just like yours but I will see if I can get her here. After tonight though, I’m afraid I may have lost any chance of getting her to come back into the woods with me willingly.”
    Kara jumped up with the energy of an eighteen year old at his words, seeming to get a second life at the thought of meeting her one and only grandchild for the first time. Kara had been blinded by Mikal when he came to town nineteen years ago, she was without her foresight and by the time he lifted the haze that surround her for almost twelve months her daughter was ready to give birth to Charlie. It was too late by then to tell Eva that she was never supposed to conceive a child. The birth, set into effect a destiny that Charlie would have to fulfill, one that would see her take her last breath, one that would see the world changed in a way that it has never seen before.
Kara retreated to the woods after that day and that is where she stayed for eighteen long years. Her only company being the handsome young man that wandered into her cabin five years ago. How he got there only he knew, he refused to speak of how he came to get into the town of Tole with anyone, not even Kara. He had stayed by her side until it was time to move into town and set a plan into motion and although things were now moving faster than expected she couldn’t be angry at the boy for giving into her granddaughter. He was a rotten liar and she knew from experience that he would crack under a strong glare in a split second. His honesty was what set him apart from the other Valguard. Although he talked big about them letting too much humanity seep in over the last twenty years, he was more human than any of them. Being brought up in a foster home with human parents had seen to that.
    “Don’t you worry about that my boy, Charlie will come more willingly than you think, you will see.”
    “Don’t be so sure of yourself Kara, you said it yourself, you are flying blind now.”
    “Ahh but this I can see, and I have seen for quite some time now. Your worlds are converging and it’s time for a change. You need