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"So now, instead of just worrying about the packs that are falling back into the Old Ways, we need to worry about a coven hiding out inside the kingdom. Wonderful. As if we didn’t already have more than enough on our plates to handle right now," Lykos said sarcastically.
Kodi still paced inside his cell, " It would make some sense since Morgana has an altar ready to go. I remember her saying you needed to find the place to place an altar. Something about places of power so they could bring more power into their spells. I know she did not practice dark magic, but her healing spells and everything else she did were quite powerful. More than I would expect from a white witch who is normally less powerful than she was."
Remy thought about that. The altar was easy to find, considering she could feel the power and smell all the ingredients Morgana used for her spells. The witch never used any kind of magic inside the house, so Remy could not detect that a witch had lived among the pack. Even a White witch would leave traces of magic behind if she used spells inside the house. If she needed a place of power to increase her power, her spells were cast where the altar was built because something significant happened there and amplified the spells’ abilities.
"Do you know how she was able to build that altar? If she said she was looking for a place of power to build it, why was it that area she chose to build the altar?"
Kodi shook his head. " She never told me why it had to be that spot. It had already been built before I got involved. Maybe it was where a major battle happened because even death could power spells without them being dark magic spells."
Lykos looked at Kodi, "How do you know about this?"
"Morgana would answer any question I had. It was her way of building trust. She explained how her spells worked and how to increase their power without crossing the line into dark magic."
"Looks like that worked."
Lykos's comment made Kodi throw himself against the cell and swiped out with his hands to grab hold of him. Lykos stepped back, so his attempt failed, but Remy was on her feet anyway. Kodi's eyes were swimming with black, and his breathing was labored. She could smell his anger rolling off him in waves, and his power filled the room. Remy noticed that his swell of power was also trying to pull on the pack bonds to bring more into it. Without Kodi being an Alpha of the pack, he wouldn't be able to pull on the pack entirely—those who felt the call to borrow power decided to give it to him freely. The pack bonds tightened up, and Remy felt the rest of the pack cut Kodi off, making his power stagnant in the air, and it wasn't enough to make any of them in the room obey what he wanted.
"DO NOT SPEAK OF HER LIKE SHE MANIPULATED ME!" Kodi snarled, spit spewing from his mouth as he enunciated the words.
Lykos pulled on his own power, and the pack responded immediately. Remy did not fight it and allowed her father to borrow hers to make Kodi submit. Without the backing of his pack, which had not been added into the pack bonds yet to give Kodi time to heal and then be returned as the Alpha, Kodi dropped to his knees. She could see him fighting the urge to bare his neck to his father, so Remy pushed more power into her father so his Lycan would settle down.
"Enough!" Lykos boomed. "You will understand that we are unhappy that you chose to bond yourself to the witch! That is not our way, and you should have waited for your fated mate."
Remy growled and put herself between her father and Kodi, putting her back to Kodi, which wasn't the best idea, but she would not tolerate that nonsense of the Old Ways from her father.
"Kodi is allowed to choose whoever HE wants to be his mate. That species shit has no place inside of this pack. We are supposed to be better than others to drown out those old laws. If you keep them inside this pack, I will leave with Kodi, and we will build up that pack instead! The Dark Dimension is fucking winning over our kingdom because of shit like this. ENOUGH ALREADY!"
Lykos's nose flared at her, but Remy stood her ground. She also tried to keep her attention on Kodi behind her, but she needed to do this. If this were a trigger for Kodi, they would need to tread lightly. But she meant what she said. This pack did not have room for this kind of bigotry. After a few heartbeats, Lykos let his power decimate and then relaxed his posture. Remy took that as a win and turned toward Kodi.
"And you. Stop thinking every Witch comment we make is about Morgana. It isn't. If there is a witch problem in our kingdom, we must deal with it. It's one thing to have a coven of witches in this kingdom looking for work. It's another to have them here causing problems for our kingdom."
Kodi kept his head bowed but nodded. Remy was pleased with herself and sighed now that that issue was over.
"What can we do about this coven that must be here? I know that so many of the packs are reverting to the Old Ways, so we can't reach out to them like we normally would. Is there another way we can go about this so we can find this coven and put an end to this madness?"
Tala looked at her. "I'm not even sure what packs would be open to speaking with us and which ones wouldn't. I know you made two alliances while away, but that isn't enough. There are at least thirty packs inside the kingdom. Some are smaller than the majority, but we are only aligned with three of them right now."
Remy groaned. "That's not good. That is not going to be enough at this point. We need to have every able and willing pack looking for either the rift that is allowing the dark dimension to spill inside of our kingdom, or we need people looking for the coven that caused it to exist in our kingdom in the first place. We will deal with more bloodshed than necessary if we do not find at least one or the other."
Kodi moved to the back of the cell and kept his knees to his chest to rest his head. Remy watched him to see what he planned on doing next. With him being the wild card, she didn't want to take her eyes off him as he was the person who would have asked these things. He brought rogues to him and made a pack with those who tended to be nomads and traveled through the kingdom. If anyone knew about the possibility of where to look, it would be him.
"Kodi, have any of the rogues mentioned seeing the rift or maybe bumped into witches during their travels to your part of the kingdom?"
He shook his head but kept it bowed. "I never heard them speak of such things. Sometimes, they spoke more about what was happening to Morgana because she was the Luna of the pack. She had a way with people, and they would open up to her without much prompting. If anyone would have known, it would have been her."
"And we can't ask her because she is dead. Great." Kodi growled, but Remy ignored it and said, “We need to send letters to the rest of the packs and ask them. That is at least a place to start."
Lykos nodded, "I have all the addresses in my office. I can get to work on that."
"I will send a letter to Kaida, asking her for advice on how to beat this. Maybe she can even fly here once we find this rift and close the damn thing. Who knows, maybe she is already working with Adrien for a potion people can drink, and it will expel the dimension out of whoever it controls."
Lykos patted her shoulder. "I wouldn't hold your breath, sweetheart. But I will shower, get some food, and start on those letters."
Lykos walked up the stairs and out of sight. Tala walked over, hugged Remy, told her she was glad to see her home again, and started to follow her mate. When Tala's footsteps were in the middle of the stairway, Remy heard her stop.
"And don't think you are off the hook from telling me more details about this Chase and Myles, or even about things with Levi. I want to know everything, and you will spill the beans. I will even make brownies to persuade you if I have to."
Remy groaned but knew she was beat regarding the brownies. "Fine! You better make the damn brownies then because I do not want to talk about this, and I will only do it for the brownies."
