Chapter 119: Chapter 119: Safety Of The Universe

No more time to think, to consider what I'd done raising my son with this sense of purpose and duty. Not when Max carried us into the veil on his broad back. Gabriel's joy radiated from him, and I allowed myself to embrace that-the simple yet profound happiness of a boy riding a dragon.

Cool, yes. And enough to hold my heart together, at least for now. If this worked out, maybe forever. I hugged my son and leaned with Max as he banked and passed through the veil into a new plane.

We couldn't take Ethie with us. She wasn't able to cross the veils like I was, like Gabriel and Max and the rest of the drach. Were she to try, she might end up like the poor lost souls he'd tried to save. Or not. She was, after all, part maji, like me. There was no way of knowing without testing it and I wasn't willing to go that far with both of my children, thank you very much.