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Everything was falling,
destroying itself. And Mary. . . God, Mary.
    “My people. . . They are fighting, don’t you
see? Even Raffaele was smart enough to avoid this. What did I do
wrong with my Chosen?”
    Stuart fixed his blue robbing as he thought
that over, eyes avoiding Kevin’s.
    “Brother, I don’t believe it was you
who did wrong. I don’t believe it was anyone , actually. Fate, as you know, has a will
of its own. Maybe Mary has not hit the peak yet, maybe she will not
hit it at all and someone else shall replace her.”
    “By replacing her, you mean. . .” Kevin
trailed off, staring at his brother with his mouth to the floor,
horrified.
    His blue head nodded, eyes coming to meet
Kevin’s. “I do. The only way the Chosen could be replaced is by
being killed, and you know that.”
    “You would not have my Chosen. . .!”
    “Verily, I would. If one race fails, as do
all else. Please see the light in the words with which I am saying.
Life is not easy. We may not have one, because to have a life you
have to die, but we have seen the lives of others, we have guided
them and nurtured them. Are we not within our rights to take them,
also?”
    “Stuart. Brother. Please . . .” Finally, his voice cracked. To lose
Mary was to lose his life. She had been his soul project from the
beginning, ever since it had been declared that she would lead the
race and unite them. Had the foretelling of separation been in
there at all? No, it hadn’t.
    The blue man stood, legs stiff as his
backbone. “I. . .beg you to think of what will happen. The time of
meeting has come. The time of change has come. Do you think she will be strong enough to do all of
this, one mere woman?
    “Take a look at my Chosen. Strong, capable, a leader. What has
Mary done to suggest that she is a proper leader? She hides behind
her family, lets them decide her life for her.”
    His words were hissed, taking Kevin back a
step. Not everyone was perfect, he defended her mentally, wishing
that he was strong enough to stand up to his blood.
    “Is she strong enough? Or will she be the one
to fail,” he said, voice as hard as his eyes. The pure, navy blue
eyes bore into Kevin and he realized that he might have been the
one to kill his Mary, before even knowing what was happening.
    Stuart left silently, leaving Kevin to think
over his brothers words.
    His head fell into his hands in despair.

Chapter 6
     
    Mary pulled into her driveway, unaware
of the conversation that was going on between Kevin and Stuart. Her
head was hurting, her feet were killing her, and she felt as if her
arm was still on
fire.
    Honest to god, it felt like someone was
holding a lighter to her arm and the sensation was in no way close
to leaving. She sighed, running a hand through her hair before
snatching her keys out of the ignition and opening the door of her
car.
    She looked at her yard, grimacing. Mary hated
mowing, she really did. She also hated the erratic weather, the
coldness and the closed-off feeling that she got from living there.
Maybe she could get her friend’s son to mow again, she thought as
her heels clicked along the pavement.
    Mary hadn’t even bothered to lock her door.
What would have been the point? Iowa was so run down and country
that the neighbors around her had been her best friends growing
up.
    Flipping on the switch and getting out of her
heels, she was walking into the living room when a cupboard
shutting in the kitchen made her jump.
    “Mary?” the voice of her mother asked from
inside the kitchen.
    With a frown on her face, she walked her way
into the kitchen. “Oh god, you scared me. Leave me a message or
text or something before you come over, would ya?” Mary let out a
breath and dropped her keys onto the counter.
    “I’m sorry, dear,” Alicia Waters said,
distraught. She came around the counter to wrap her daughter up in
a bear hug.
    Mary hugged her back. “What are you doing
here?” She frowned. “Are you okay? Want me to make you a