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the snowcat elders told me I had a different road
to travel. My path was with the Nyx, she said. I offered myself to
Ria as a Royal Guard and came up through the ranks to become Master
when the old Master could no longer keep up with the duties. He
died shortly after that, which caused great sadness to all of us
who had trained under him. He was well loved and much missed. But
it helped that I’d had his blessing to take his place. The pantera noir took me in at first for the sake of my aunt,
but after the old Master named me his successor, they welcomed me
on my own merits and I found my true calling, as the snowcat seer
said I would.”
    And wasn’t Geir just the gabby guy today? He
almost didn’t believe how many words were coming out of his mouth.
Usually taciturn and silent, he had worried about being able to
converse with his guests. Turns out, he needn’t have worried after
all. He was almost having a hard time shutting up. He decided he’d
heard enough of his own voice for one meal.
    “So, what are your plans?” Geir asked Jacki
and Beau.
    Beau gestured to Jacki, letting her speak
first. “Well, the first thing I need to do is help Tom get better,
but I decided to do that here because the High Priestess is coming
here to train me. I’m going to join her order.” Jacki’s face
flushed in the most charming way, almost as if she was embarrassed
or excited—or both. “I never thought about being a priestess, but
it feels right. Something happened during the battle…” her voice
trailed off and Geir thought back to what she had done during the
last battle in North Carolina.
    “When you cast that amazingly powerful
spell?” Geir prompted. “That was a masterwork of magic, milady. You
saved the day and stunned all of those who saw it happen, myself
included.”
    “Yeah,” she agreed, sounding a little
flustered, as if shy of what she had done. “That was when it
happened. I was so scared, but yet…I felt more power flowing
through me than I’ve ever felt before. I didn’t understand what was
happening. I’m still not really sure how it all occurred, but one
minute I was praying and the next, the flow of magic came into me
in a rush, allowing me to turn the tide on the evil spell. It was a
really amazing feeling.” She took a sip of her tea, her eyes still
very distant in memory. “Bettina came to me a few days after and
explained a few things. She also instructed me to come here. She
said she’d arrive shortly to begin my training. She…uh…she wants to
name me as her successor, though I still can’t really see it.”
    “High Priestess?” Beau seemed as shocked as
Geir was.
    “If anyone has that kind of power, you do,
Jacki. Don’t doubt yourself. Few beings in this realm could have
done what you did on that battlefield.” Geir was used to giving
small pep talks to his students who sometimes doubted their
abilities. He was glad he knew what to say to take the uncertainty
out of her eyes. She smiled at him and he felt like the sun had
come out on a rainy day.
    “Does Bettina plan on stepping down or
something?” Beau asked, bringing them back to the practical.
    “Not that I know of.” Jacki bit her lip as
worry seemed to return to her expression. “I think it’s more that
she’s worried about what’s coming. If she were to fall, she wants
the succession to be secure, to avoid chaos in the leadership. I
don’t understand it all, but I decided back in North Carolina,
before ever agreeing to come here, that I would do whatever I could
to make this happen. Not for myself, but because I feel the same
sense of dread about the future. I’m not a seer, but my aunt is,
and she’s offered quite a few warnings of late. And now, even the
seas are forbidden to us because of the leviathan. It’s not a good
time to be a selkie and someone’s got to take a stand against the
evil that threatens us all.”
    Geir felt such pride in her in that moment.
This was a woman of deep integrity. A mate he