Alpha King’s Lost Luna by Aubrey Pepper

Chapter 214 KALEB “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
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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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