Hidden in the mist

Helping a lost soul:part two

Not going to lie I had a dark and horrified gut feeling as she told me the description already, and to find out it was only going to get worse! I didn’t know what was worse, what was to come from her story or that fact her mother was involved and led her to this dark twisted night and to make it her last night with her own daughter. “if you can’t continue I understand Brigid, you don’t have to go any further, we can take a break for the night and we can get together another time when you ready. I really don’t want to push you.’

        She nodded and pursed her lips, looking down at her hands which were tangling themselves over and over. Moments passed as I watched her, waiting for her to either agree or continue, this poor child has been through some horrid things and I don’t even know everything, I wasn’t even sure if I wanted to know, I would have lost my mind and attacked her mother for screwing up this poor young child’s life. I can’t change the past and trust me I’ve wished that every day for over a two thousand years, now I sit in front of a girl that is almost as tortured as I and I can’t help her like I wish I could, the only thing I could do was help her understand her past….. but again, there’s the problem of her finding out what really goes bump in the night and then open a whole new wound for her. Or hide her from it all and make things worse for her, she might think she is crazy like her mother, even if she lives a normal life now, she may start getting scared that she will end up like her mother one day.  

I can’t let that happen, I won’t let that happen, I need to speak with Zan and figure a way out to help her, but also not have Zan think I’m out of my mind like her mother. I also need to protect him from the things that go bump in the shadows, being around so many mortals and trying to protect them and the other worlders is hard, never should the two blend, if it does I’m very unsure what would happen…. Maybe another dark ages for the whole world, wars again, but then again would it bring my parents back if its things played out that way…. I needed to think about something else before I lost my cool myself, but I noticed Brigid still was thinking herself. I let her think to long she must be going into a mental flash back.

“Brigid, I think we should talk about this another time, I think you stressed yourself enough tonight.” She then looked up at me with blank eyes that slowly saw that I was indeed in front of her. Color started to form on her cheeks, and she nodded.

“I’m sorry miss McGrath, I was lost in my own thoughts, I think your right, I need rest and I have homework to do as well, that’s due at the end of the week for two classes.”

“it’s okay sweety, I understand… here, here is my number give me a call any time you need to. If you want, we can meet up in a more comfortable place so we can chat some more. I will also keep in touch; we have plenty of time before the trip to get things taken care of okay.”

She took my information we finished up our conversation with goodbyes and then she was out the door.

           After she left, I text Zan to let him know I was free, we went out as planed and talked about what Brigid and I had conversed when he came along. He was becoming one of my favorite people in this world, not very hard seeing I don’t keep people near me, more so mortals.

Oh I forgot to mention I’m a celestial being from a realm that, well… is no longer open for us god and goddesses to return home. Let me make my intro story short for you, I know it’s a bit late and out of order, but my whole life is that way….. you’ll see.

      My name is as you know Boa, Boa Ann McGrath, the McGrath was taken hundreds of years after my entrance into this realm. Well a few thousand years ago I was born in Vanaheim, and no I don’t know Thor or anyone else you might hope I know, so no dirt from me sorry. I do know Odin though, he is my godfather, also my moms’ half brother. I know crazy right, well not my tale to tell folks, anyways I was born there while my parents where visiting helping out my uncle/ godfather. To be honest I was a shocker baby, they had no idea I was in there waiting to pop out. My father use to tell me how they were having a great gathering trying to resolve an issue between Freya, Odin and another outer worlder from another realm, he was a mighty rift walker, he had the ability to thin the vails between every known and unknown world and realm. Well he came to seek Freya to help him create another like him, well dear old uncle was a jelly man and didn’t like to share his second wife with any one, she was a mighty goddess with so much magic and spells, she was also known as the first witch, the weaver of magic its self.

   Well Odin was on a rant and Freya was drooling over the guest and well her little hormone trip casted its own spell and my mother being a fertility goddess took the hit from that one, so then a pool of water moved its way around my mothers feet and began to dance and sway, my mother then started to feel my movement grow stronger as I grew, her eyes got big and she reached for my fathers shoulder, and turned him to her, that’s when she creamed out as I pushed my way out, the dancing water caught me before I could hit the ground and it rose up to hand me to my father. The whole room stood still and very quiet for a long time, my father said he held me as Freya rushed to my mother and helped her recover from the rushed pregnancy and delivery. My father said the water was a sign of my gifts and Freya's magic made my mother move threw her pregnancy faster, because if she wasn’t pregnant when they had visited and things didn’t flow as fast as they did who knows what my gifts would have been.

   My raven hair was a gift from my father and my height was from my mother and well my eyes where just another sign of my gifts as a water goddess. I was glad I was placed as river goddess for some time because I was so young and it was a handful as is to control what I had. My father helped me out a lot, more so seeing I was their last child, my siblings were almost grown and gathered in their parts of the realm.

    But when I was 19 father came to my room and asked to speak with me about so important business, I was of course more then happy to see father and to help him with anything, but that night when we all met in the great hall and received the news of us helping revive a world that was lost, that’s when I wish I had the gift of sight….. I never saw what was coming after that.

    We all agreed to help this realm be reborn, it was an honor to work on such a thing, more so together, all gods and goddesses from every edge of our world and others came, ones that were willing and could at least. We spent so many long years helping out this mortal realm, they worshiped us and celebrated us to no end, then fear began to spread from other lands, unknown to us there were old gods and goddesses in this realm and then sent their creature to start a war. Father ended it in no time of course, we created a treaty and then we began to expand the realm and worked everything in to there, it was a mix of everything and every one was happy and at peace… time went by and to us all we felt as if we over stayed, we were only there to entertain mortals it seemed. That’s when my life took another twist, that’s when my darkest day had arrived…..

One evening we were doing our normal rounds or resting for the evening, we all sensed something was wrong, we all stopped what we were doing and began to walk out and venture in the same direction. None of knew why but we all looked to one another with lost looks as we all seemed to not realize the direction we were walking in; it was toward the stone portal. As we all neared the clearing where the stone gated portal rested, we all noticed a group standing just before the open portal, they noticed all of us and froze. We all looked back and forth between each other and back at the group finally the group began to enter the portal, the group I was with began to sob and run toward the stones. I stood there watching my parents, the last to stand before the portal, my parents had tears in their eyes, signs of pain and regret…. I knew my internal world would shatter if they moved even and inch, and then they did right before a group reached the outer stone circle, the portal shut and I fell to the group screaming and crying….. we all did, we knew the left us here and the portal wasn’t able to be opened again not from this side at least.

For many years after that I spent my life trying to keep us together and find answers as to happened that day, more and more questions had risen though, and no real answers only theories. After about, six or seven hundred years we all fell from out duties to the mortals and we either went into hiding or lived what normal life we could. Some of us though, we banded together and traveled the world to find answers and to see the other colonies to see what we could learn. That’s when we learned we weren’t alone, they to lost their loved ones that returned to the other worlds, sad part is even their portals were closed and locked from the other side.

The world had changed, even know its constantly changing, not having some of our elder leaders made a lot of things go out of order. Wars started, wars ended, mortals began to wonder and grow into their own kind, some celestial even bred with mortals which created a whole new bread. As the world went on I grew into something that has no word to describe, I wouldn’t say dark and twisted, but if I did it was only with myself. I still cared for this world and the living beings in it but at the same time I was lost on my own personal demon hunting, I was haunted by my past, still stuck in it reliving it every day only to grow more lost in pain. There was no real stable thing in my life other then that and I knew it wasn’t the best way to live but what was I to do when everything I knew and love were no longer there, and I had no real reason why things were the way they were.

       So as you know I became a teacher in a local collage in Ireland, not my first kick around with it either, when you have a life with no real expiration date you’ll learn its best to find something to do and what better then work and do something to help the kids you were placed to help in the first place thousands of years before. don’t get me wrong I’ve done many odd jobs over the years, and I’ve also not worked at all. Some immortals like myself had banded together and went traveling and excavating old places so see what we could find. To think we lived here for as long as we did and learned a lot about the world we lived in, and helped create. In the end though, we didn’t get what we were trying to find, nor any closer really the answers we found dug us deeper into more questions.

    I was never one to get close to any one never sticking to emotions with mortals and none, I knew it would only make my life harder if they to walked away or died. Don’t get me wrong there was mild friends, I went to funerals of those I knew when they were younger or met before their demise. But never let myself truly love and feel for others…. Until Zan, he and I had just met, actually not even two weeks before Brigid came to me, right away, after our odd first meet, we became close. I say close but he doesn’t know my past much and he doesn’t know what I really am, or how old I really am. I still wonder why the fates decided now to have some one like him enter my life, why twist things up now, ya know…

Two weeks ago:

      I finished my paperwork from my classes that day, I looked over at the time on my laptop and saw it was just after eight. I sat back and sighed, it had been a long day and I needed some food but everything was soon closing aside from the local pub. I’ve had to eat there in the past, they had really good food there and every so often they changed things up adding new foods or going with a week theme like American foods, or Chinese. I loved those weeks, less I had to cook and something to change up my local living options. I started to gather my things and began to walk toward my classroom door when a huge strike of lightning lite up the room and thunder cracked so loud that I felt it shook the whole school. I didn’t jump, I had a feeling it was going to be another crazy spring storm…. Better then the snow at this point.

   I shut the remaining lights off and lock up my door, as I walked threw the dark and vacant halls I had a tingle down my spine, like some one was watching but I brushed it off thinking it was just the night crew cleaning up. I got closer to the entrance and saw the winds whipping the rain around in a rushed waterfall effect. “f**k!” I said to myself out loud, I hoped it was this bad yet, I didn’t bring anything to cover myself from the rain. I stood at the door and put on  my proverbial big girl pants on and took my shall and covered my head and ran threw the door. The wind pushed and rushed me around as I tried to reach my car, I could hardly see past my nose with all the water rushing at my face, I could have used my powers to help me threw the rain but I didn’t know who was around and might see the odd event happen. So I stuck to my trying to fight the winds and rain, only to lose, I caught a gust wrong and started to go off back wards and to the side, I expected to hit the ground with a massive thud and rush of pain but I didn’t, instead I felt hands grab me. One large hand on my side another gripping my elbow on the other side and a stone like body touching my back, then all the sudden I herd a deep seductive voice chuckle and greet me.