Istharé Gathers Her Coven ~ by SaralynArati

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Running one fingertip lightly along a wing edge, she said, "We're so different. This... shouldn't work, especially not with me being who I am. Also, the Union of Vengeance would be within its rights to order me to give you up. Yet... I couldn't." Isthare's face was intense. "I..." she shrugged slightly, fidgeted. "I love you." Ooneil beamed, with a bit of a seductive tinge. "I..." the Dark Witch continued. "If I live through this, I'd like you to accept my name. And I want a child."

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"Yes, I know," Isthare said shyly. "Trust engenders trust," he repeated. She was terrified that he might tell her his true name. However, he just waited, patient, not judgementally or in a way that made her feel pressured. It was weird. "You make me proud," Ooneil praised her when the silence was in danger of becoming oppressive. Then, some tangled, fragmented thing inside Isthare sensed the time had come and straightened itself out, becoming whole and shining. She reached out to him.

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"You are trusting your Light Sister because trust engenders trust," the Lyllu replied in a voice Isthare found slightly odd. His wings were outstretched, sensing every nuance, and his own blue eyes with their gold rims were wide. "You are taking action because you feel it is the right thing to do. It's that simple." "I..." Isthare began, but her thought was lost. "You know that I love you, yes, my own? I wouldn't take a partner with me before the Sacred Willow who I didn't love and trust."

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"Why am I even doing this?" Isthare asked herself later in bed. "By all that's self-serving, why am I trusting Brin, much less taking action to ensure that any murmurings of a man with yellow eyes don't come from my own coven sisters. I made them vow on my athame that they wouldn't lie to me, lest their blood should turn to poison in their veins. For the most part, they're good girls," she finished. Then the Witch laughed for Ooneil's benefit. "Yes, in the Union of Vengeance. Ironic, no?"

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"To whom did you relate the tale, Vedika, and what exactly did you say?" the coven leader asked almost gently. "To no one who would not already know, High Mistress, only to the Dark Sister charged with their continued pursuit, High Mistress Jaenell." "I see," was all Isthare commented, before dismissing the girl Vedika along with the rest of her coven, with instructions not to spread rumors of their failure, especially not specifics of that non-duel, with absolutely anyone else, no matter whom.

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