Seizing Year Four (Grim Reaper Academy 4)
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“Then I know why Gilgamesh didn’t make it back the second time. Mom, you have to promise me you’ll never go there again. It’s dangerous.”
She groaned, as if disappointed at my reaction. “Is that the first thing you can think about? That it’s dangerous?”
“N-no.”
“Then speak your mind!”
“I can finally banish Yig. Our world… its world. I can open a portal between them, and…”
“Not you. You can’t dream travel, remember?”
“Then who?”
She handed me the plant. “When Yolanda turns eighteen, brew this into a tea and make her drink it. It will buy her one hundred years. I will bring you more.”
“Mom, Yolanda…” I shook my head firmly. “She deserves to have a normal, peaceful life. What you wanted for me. She can have it.”
“Mila, do you think the only reason you found Yolanda was because she had to kill Morningstar?”
I opened my mouth to say something, but immediately realized I would’ve gotten it wrong.
“It was never a coincidence. It was destiny. You found her because she has bigger fish to fry.”
“The Great Old One.”
“The Great Old Ones,” she corrected me.
We held each other’s gaze for a while, and I finally conceded. I wrapped my fingers around the muddy weed and nodded at Katia Angelov. She nodded back.
“Until next time, baby.”
“Until next time, Mom.”
THE END