Flynn wouldn't look at me as he built a small fire in the mouth of the cave, the flickering light making him look like a stranger. He looked sad like there was something else bothering him. It's been a week now since I've woken up, though i am not strong enough to do too much, but i can walk and stand for a few minutes.
I walked up to him and told him i am sorry and wished i had listened to him but i just had to know for myself, after i overheard their conversation. But he still couldn't believe Kael would do such a thing, it's kael! We have known each other since we were children, he will never do such a thing, he is not capable of such evil.
I could not believe it too, i felt he was being pressurized by his father, that's why i asked him again, but he didn't even deny it, that's the most heartbreaking part. And when general klaus tried to attack me? He just stood there and let it happen. How could he? I loved him.
As Flynn spoke, the air in the cave suddenly felt too thick to breathe. It wasn't just irritation; it was a physical revulsion that made my skin crawl. Every hug Finn had given me, every word of comfort, now felt like a layer of slime I couldn't wash off."
Flynn pulled me into a hesitant hug. I could feel the tension in his shoulders, a tremor he couldn't hide. Stop crying, Lyra, he whispered into my ears, though his own voice sounded like it was catching on broken glass. Save your strength. We'll figure this out.
He finally spoke about the morning Finn asked him to stay behind and why he was absent from the wedding, the day my adoptive father realized the Order was closing in.
I think i understand why he did it, father told me about his past, not everything but the part that matters. The things the Elders made him do in the name of loyalty and winning a senseless war. They were told they were doing it for the greater good, for the benefit of our people. He also got carried away with the power and freedom that came with killing without consequences.
But he drew a line at children and women, not that the men are no less important but to him it's like a sense of boundary, something that held him back from the darkness. But still that doesn't justify all the lives he took in the name of Loyalty.
He didn't exactly know why or where the war against the Originals started but while he and klaus were at the peak of their powers both aiming to be a general at that time, every little mission was a competition. The more clans, missions and territories conquered brought each closer their goal of authority and power. And closer to the hierarchy and the Order.
They both learnt, you might not be lucky enough to inherit greatness through bloodline but you can sure work hard to get it, even if it meant killing to get there.
They received an order to meet at the foot of the narrow river just beyond the mountains, both realized when they got there it's a joint mission. And any mission that requires the top two betas and the royal guard was no ordinary mission.
They took positions at the twin peaks, the Caern.
A sacred place for refugees, where all could come and find solace. It has been for centuries, werewolf, witch, seer or anyone is welcome. But once you're there no violence whatsoever is allowed. That was the law for centuries and no one enforced it but it was respected.
But all that changed when Klaus and Finn attacked.
Klaus took the front entrance and Finn guarded the back. But his conscience has been eating away at him since he knew that's their target. He wanted power but not at the cost of his soul through the massacre of defenseless people!
Unknown to him klaus has already been preparing for this for a while and he made some weapons imbued with magic and silver.
When used it weakens wolfs especially the originals, they were given order to slay any one that was a werewolf with blue eyes. Maybe it was fate or destiny Finn couldn't stand the massacre and excused himself feeling overwhelmed by the cries of the innocent and for a brief moment he had a vision. A lady with blue eyes spoke an enchantment and as he regained himself, someone in a dark cloak passed by him, halt! Do not take another step further, turn around slowly. And as she did, there stood Mirah pregnant and Finn dropped his guard, he couldn't do it.
She muttered some words and he fell unconscious, she ran for the dark forest. That was the day he retired from it all.
The truth came out in a jagged rush: Finn wasn't the hero who saved me from the ruins, but the tracker who led the Order to my mother's hiding place. But Mirah saw through his soul that day and she saw their destiny was intertwined, he had a role to play and that's why she came to him the second time.
She trusted the life of her child and hope of her people and the child of prophecy within the territory of the enemy at the hands of her hunter.
I felt the pendant burn against my chest, a phantom heat that seemed to scream at the mention of Finn's betrayal. Years of lies and deceit hidden in plain sight and i was too naive to see it, too trusting to see it coming. But how could i, when i know nothing of my own origins.
Finn had spent twenty years "protecting" me not out of love, but out of a guilt so deep it had poisoned his very soul. And the only way to repay that debt was to protect me from himself and he's past. I don't know what my mother saw in him because right now all i see is a murderer and a killer.
Flynn reached out to touch my shoulder, but I flinched away, seeing the blood of my mother on the hands of the only family I had left. Even though it's not Flynn, i just felt so irritated at that moment and if i had any strength to move or scream. I would have ran and screamed on top of my voice, because keeping all this agony bottled up inside feels like driving a stake through my heart...it hurts, it really hurts. And for a moment my nightmares were better! As i was about to leave, he said something angrily, Not really angrily but in a way he was mad at me, that's not all Father also said you are with child.