AU Magi: Marnie: Becoming a Part of the Carne (part 2)

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Part 1

Sighing, Marnie turned back to the window, looking down at her garden again. Thinking about everything she’d left behind was something she tried not to do, because of the mixed emotions she felt. Leaving her family behind had been the easiest part. When Terrence hadn’t returned from Garcer territory she lost her only real connection to the rest of her family. It had been leaving the Magi behind that had been the hard part. As she was going to assassinate a prince she thought it was more likely that she’d end up dead than returning to her people, but instead he’d imprisoned her and slowly they’d got to know each other.

“Marnie…” Thomar put his hand gently on her shoulder. “I think it worked out better than either of us could have hoped.”

“How did you know I was coming, Tom?”

“It seemed the most likely next step for the Magi. I never imagined for a moment that it would be you they were going to send, because you seemed too important a person for a job you were probably never going to return from, but then I’ve never understood your mother.”

“No one really understands my mother. I don’t even understand her and I’m her only daughter, the person who was supposed to be following in her footsteps in the same way she followed in her mother’s footsteps.” Marnie bit her lip. “Mother was never supposed to be the matriarch. She was my grandmother’s second daughter. Her first child, Lorna, died attempting to heal someone with energy instead of using one of the herbal remedies. According to all the stories I’ve heard it was Lorna’s only option if she was going to save her patient and her patient did survive. Lorna didn’t.”

“Was Lorna a name many of the Magi had at that time?” Thomar asked.

“I think only my aunt had that name, but I can’t be certain. There may have been other Lornas.” Marnie turned to look at him. “Why do you ask?”

“A Magi woman named Lorna, and her companion Callum, travelled here to help us when she found out about the illness that was afflicting us. She did everything she could to help us and it’s thanks to her that I survived.”

For years there had been Magi walking away, because they didn’t like the direction the matriarch was taking them in. Marnie wasn’t comfortable with it either, she didn’t think they should sell themselves at a price that most people couldn’t afford, but as they were the only healers in the world her mother thought they had every right to. The plan had been for her to change things when she became the matriarch. As that was probably never going to happen it seemed likely that the Magi would continue along the path they were on. If Lorna really was alive Marnie couldn’t understand why she’d never returned to Magi territory, unless there was a reason Lorna had left everything behind, because she should be the matriarch.

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.

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