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After we got back home it was time to meet with the council, that also went pretty good, I think. At first they were surprised, they certainly never expected to meet a healer, but it also made the whole situation with doc’s behaviour dissolve. During the visit I finally got to meet the fifth child of Shirley and Jonathan, Ethan, who turned out was working for the council as a lawyer, he was a good man and I felt instant family connection to him, which made my talk with the wise men easier. I remembered, that Nathan said I could choose what to do, so we sat down with the elders and Ethan and spent a couple hours discussing my options. Much to my surprise the rumours of my existence had spread so rapidly, that I felt like a celebrity. But what was even better, that in a matter of days, while the council were still visiting, other healers started crawling out of their hiding places and reached out to the packs. Apparently only my mother was against passing the tradition on. I still don’t understand why she decided to come clean to the Mayor, but I guess I will never find out.
The only thing I did manage to find out was that the rogues indeed were hiding their scents with the help of my mother, that’s why they managed to sneak past the border patrols and get to the house undetected. It was quite scary how powerful a simple potion made of herbs could be, the weight of responsibility on my shoulders was huge. Doc Evans has persuaded the council to whip up a set of rules for packs to follow if they had a healer residing in their territory. First and most important rule was to use the powers for good reasons only – healing. That’s why a healer was called so, to
cure, not to brew potions that would be used to harm someone.
I didn’t want to leave the pack to learn everything I could, so the council arranged for another
healer to come to me. She was an old woman somewhere from Texas, she had 4 granddaughters, who all were healers as well, and she was eager to help me. She arrived after a month and settled in my old room at the B&B. She was also able to explain the amount of white light that was seeping through my pores in the forest, which I have no recollection of whatsoever, but Nick and Jonathan spoke of in in some sort of awe, they said it was magical and kind of creepy… Anyway, the woman explained, that the white lite was from my powers being awakened, and the fact that my child needed my immediate help made it so intense. Apparently this blinding sensation was me healing Hope, since she had yet to spend another month inside of me, but was forced to be born. That was also the reason why I passed out and nearly died, since I couldn’t control my powers yet, wasn’t strong enough for that and it literally drained me. If it weren’t for Nick marking me, I would surely have died, but he saved me. I cried when I understood what he did for me, and he did a lot. He fought
an Alpha wolf for me. He saved my life. He called Hope ‘our‘ baby, accepting me with all my baggage. I’m the luckiest girl in the world…
By the way, me and Nick moved in together. Apparently he had his own place not that far from the B&B. His house wasn’t as big, but it was mighty cozy with large windows facing the forest, a huge fireplace and even a small pond in the backyard. He confessed shyly, that as soon as he turned eighteen, he started building it for him and his mate. He was a romantic deep in his heart, hiding it behind this all warrior exterior. But I already knew that, he was my softy.
And Hope… Goddess, she was wonderful. And Nick adored her and was planning to spoil her for the rest of her days. We didn’t know if she would shift, or if she would become a healer, or maybe both?
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But we didn’t care, we loved her so much it hurt. All in all life was good. We had a long road ahead of
us and a lot to learn about each other, but I had high hopes for the future. Everything I went through eventually lead me here, home. Life was good. Finally.
The end.
