Though Taiyi had been a mother to Eltanin all his life, she couldn't help but feel immense motherly affection for Felis. She wanted to rake her fingers through his hair and see how they felt. She wanted to smell her son and understand what he smelled like. She knew that inside that burnt, smoky smell, he surely had another one hidden.
Felis gathered his courage to ask, but he had to ask all the important questions first, because he had only one night with her. "Why is it that Eltanin has your magic but I don't? He has inherited your magic, but I haven't. Or is it that it is locked inside of me?"Read latest chapters at nov(e)lbin.com Only
Taiyi knew why Felis was asking this. She had to tread carefully on his question. "Honestly... I don't know..." she said. She took a deep breath in. "But I thought that you have magic. There are a lot of—" She lowered her head. She wondered if she should even speak about his misdeeds. "There are a lot of stories on how you use your dark magic." Right now she was referring to how he had tried to control Eltanin's beast.
Felis understood what she was saying. He had no reservations in hiding what he wanted. "Yes, I have mastered dark magic, but you of all people should know that when I use my dark magic, it affects me the most."
Taiyi nodded lightly. "I know. So why are you using it?" she asked, cocking her head. "Why not just put an end to all this?"
They both became silent as Felis reveled in his mother's touch. He was allowing himself to lower his self-guard only for the night. He had to.
"How will I know that I have magic?" he asked, tipping his head up to see her.
It was like walking on eggshells on this topic. Taiyi could never reveal to him whether he could unlock his magic or not. He was asking it to defeat Eltanin, and she couldn't allow it, not just because Felis was her son, but because she knew that Felis was beyond repair. He would destroy Araniea if he knew how to unlock his magic. She really felt sad for him.
"I don't know..." she said. "Didn't Ukdah say anything about it?"
"No, he was never there for me."
Taiyi's heart squeezed for him. "May I give you a suggestion?" she said, hoping that he didn't get angry.
Felis rested his head against her legs as if wanting her to continue stroking him. "You may..." He wasn't used to taking suggestions from anyone other than his General, and he even killed people for giving him unwanted suggestions, but this was his mother. The sea goddess.
"Instead of focusing on how to unlock your magic, why don't you stop all this mindless killing. Everyone in Araniea is tired and sick of Nyxers. Isn't there a way that you end it and live peacefully?" she suggested.