The World Walkers: Unknown World: Rayner: The Seventh Son of a Seventh Daughter (part 2)

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Part 1

Raenarin was not a safe place for my father, but he made the choice to stay behind because he knew it would give my mother more time to get away with me. I think even then he knew what was going to happen to him, there’s a chance he might have seen it happen long before the covens found him, and when they did he was executed, as a lesson to all the male Witches who happen to be living and the female Witches who might have a male child. Before my mother fell in love with my father she permitted her coven to do the right thing, but it was different when she had me.

Sometimes I can’t help wondering what my six brothers might have been like if they’d been permitted to live. I’m not sure that my mother does the same thing, because she’s let go of her past in a way that I’ve never been able to. When I was born she was thirty-six, she’d been an initiated Witch for over two decades by that point and had made some choices that I can never forgive her for, even though I can understand why she made them. In her position I can imagine doing the same thing, as she’d been taught that male Witches were very dangerous creatures that were better off dead.

Don’t ask me what changed. I don’t know and I don’t want to ask her. There are questions I probably should ask her, but they aren’t subjects I’m comfortable bringing up. I’ll never have a chance to meet my brothers thanks to the choices she made when she was younger, even though she could easily have left the coven behind when she had her first son. Other Witches had. Maybe there’s a reason she stayed with the coven when I feel she should have walked away and it’s something she’ll tell me about when she’s ready, because there are a lot of things she isn’t comfortable talking about.

One thing she really doesn’t like me bringing up is her coven, even though I know them better than she ever could. I’ve spent hours watching them, trying to understand why they make the choices they do and why they were so scared of me. If I hadn’t I wouldn’t have known that I was the seventh son of a seventh daughter, which as far as they’re concerned makes me one of the most dangerous Witches in their history. Unfortunately nothing they ever said told me why I was so terrifying, although they did mention a couple of previous occurrences, when a seventh son was born to a seventh daughter. I did find out that it had never happened within a coven before, because they liked to be very careful with who a Witch was permitted to mate with.

My mother wasn’t supposed to mate again, not after the previous failures, and she probably wouldn’t have done if she hadn’t fallen in love. Until then she believed that the covens were right to stop her from having another child, as she’d already had six sons. I wish I knew what it was about my father that made her change her mind or if it was something else entirely, because I want to understand her… but they are things she finds it really hard to talk about and I have no choice but to accept that that, even though I would really like to be able to talk to her about it all.

Mirrored from K. A. Webb Writing.

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