Alpha King’s Lost Luna by Aubrey Pepper

Chapter 214

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“So, you're saying that she had been the wife of the king of Wegalla and the wife
of Emmett Keller?” Raven uttered with a look of shock on her face after Anubis
briefly told her the story. And then she just went back to the king after Emmett
died, only she had assumed a new identity? That sounds... unrealistic!”

I rolled my eyes but then forced myself to conduct myself with more decorum.
Raven hadn't met Emmett Keller in person. When Emmett was alive and visiting
Yurene, Raven and Roxy had been too young. But the twins, along with everyone
else in Yurene, knew all about the great sorcerer who was capable of impressive
magic and then disappeared like a ghost,

Before I could offer a comment, Raven spoke again.

“Do you believe that Cas sandra is the key to Emmett’s great sorcery?” she
wondered, and when I offered the smallest of nods, she nodded too. “That's
possibly true, but there's also a chance that Emmett just ruined all of his
inventions before his death and hadn't kept any trace of his research or
information.

“I don't think that’s true,” I remarked. “Just before Emmett died, he didn’t have
time to deal with anything back in Wild Crawler. So, the talisman must have been
back there.

Raven nodded thoughtfully.

“Is there a possibility that Emmett used a certain spell to keep the talisman from
being found?” I ask moment to think about it and then shook her head firmly.
her. Raven took a

“No” she said. “If something contained magical power, it would be sensed, as it
would surely emanate a certain amount of energy. But none of Ca ssandra’s
things emit any power. We would have been able to discover it immediately”
“Are you sure you haven't just missed it?” Anubis demanded.

Raven seemed irked by his angry tone and glared at him with ferocity. Her
nostrils flared and her posture shifted from relaxed to defensive. “How dare you
challenge me? You're nothing more than a low-rank sorcerer-"

“That's enough,” I said, and before the two could get into a quarrel, I stepped
between them. My head began to ache and I found myself glowering at Anubis.
Though she was so young, Raven was the best sorceress in the whole of
Yurene. If she said that the necklace and the rest of Ca ssandra’s belongings
didn’t have any traces of magic, I didn’t doubt her. She would be able to sense
the energy an object like that would emit.

“Do you have any other ideas?” I asked Raven. She considered the question for
a moment and then seemed to have a

realization.

“Yes,” she answered softly. “An idea occurred to me just now but I'm not sure if
it's possible.”

“Tell me.” I insisted calmly, though I was eager to hear her theories. She tended
to ramble, but she was incredibly smart. Her theories weren't anything to brush
off, and if she could find an answer when I couldn't, I would be elated..
“Normally, a sorcerer needs a talisman to perform powerful magic,” she
explained. “But the talisman isn’t necessarily a.... thing.”

I frowned. “What do you mean?”

Raven tucked a strand of her dark hair behind her ear. “What I mean is that it
could also be a person.”

1 froze in place for a moment as I tried to make sense of what she was
suggesting. Did she mean Cas sandra? Was the beautiful, mysterious healer
from Wegalla more than just that?

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Did Emmett Keller use Cas s andra as his talisman?

When I asked Raven just that, she lifted an eyebrow and glanced at the ground.
“It's possible. Using a person to be a talisman would give a sorcerer more power
than say gold or silver. But I highly doubt it because it sounds far too brutal. You
see, a talisman can be permanently damaged by powerful magic. Sorcery usually
takes a terrible toll. So if a sorcerer used a person as a talisman.”

Her voice trailed off and she inhaled deeply. Her statement hung in the air and I
didn’t quite know how to react.

Would Emmett do that to Cas sandra?

I wasn't sure. I didn’t know the complexities of their relationship. Would he use
her in that kind of way? He didn’t seem like a cruel, manipulative man, but then
again, surely there were things I didn’t know about him.

“You've been in close proximity to her, Raven,” I noted in confusion.” I saw you
hug her in the banquet hall the night of the party. If the talisman is indeed Cas
sandra herself, they why couldn't you sense the energy emanating from her?”
“That's another problem, the young sorceress remarked, and she crossed her
arms against her chest. “There’s no telling where it could be. The magic power
can be sealed inside a person’s body. It could be a leg, an arm, or even half of
the body. But there's a cost in being a talisman. It would require a major sacrifice
in return.”

“A sacrifice? I repeated back. “What kind of sacrifice?”

“The greater the power, the greater the sacrifice would be,” Raven continued
without looking at him. “That's why I said it would be brutal. Anyway this is all just
an assumption, and likely a false one, since Cas sandra seems complete. If she
were a talisman, something would be amiss. The magic would take its toll in
some kind of way”

Anubis suddenly cleared his throat, and when I glanced over at him, he had a
strange look on his face.

“Maybe she isn't as complete as we think,” he suggested, and then he tilted his
head to the side slightly. “When I was investigating the Wild Crawler Pack, I had
heard something about Cas sandra. It was mentioned that she seemed unable to
shift. People believed she was born with the inability. But if she had been Cora
Felix, it's impossible that she was born that way. It would be a complete anomaly
for a member of such a high-ranking family, and she wouldn't have been
matched with Asher Collins.”

“So what are you suggesting?” I wondered, and I felt the flares of my headache
sp ik e again. This was a lot to make sense of and I was irritated that I hadn't
known enough about talismans to have this idea sooner.

“If a sacrifice is indeed necessary to become a living talisman, then I think that
Cas sandra sacrificed her wolf,” Anubis stated clearly. “Or Emmett Keller made
her sacrifice it

The idea was a powerful one. I had no idea that Ca sandra was unable to shift
into her wolf form. Though I'd done a great deal of investigating the healer, it had
never been brought to my attention that she was unable to make the change.
This changed everything.

If Cas sandra was indeed the talisman we'd been searching for...

“If that's the case, things would be difficult,” Raven interrupted my thoughts, and
when I turned to face her, I detected a solemn expression on her pretty face. “For
talismans who lost their limbs, their magic power would be reactivated by cutting
their wounds. But if its the wolf spirit... They would need to provoke it properly.”
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