Chapter 351: Chapter 351 : Where Is There ?
Orion barely had time to process Elenora's last words when a surge of magic exploded around them. He instinctively shielded his eyes, but even through closed lids, the brightness was overwhelming. The force of her power washed over him, pressing him back slightly as a pulsing warmth filled the room, radiating from her with a stunning, almost blinding intensity.
Orion's magic by instinct acted up, reacting to the law of Time. But when he release his magic, it was obviously more overwhelming. However he quickly restrained his own magic, he just maintained a barrier around him and the baby to stay safe. Having now idea what she was doing right now.
Orion no longer even had a idea what was going on anymore. Not to mention, he could feel it. There was something in here which was absorbing his magical power. No matter how much magical power he use, it ended up getting absorbed, making him dumbfounded. The moment she use this magic, this crazy magic absorption started.
He had two thoughts of retaliating but he didn't do that. Believing in her, he remain in his place with the baby in his hand and constantly pour his magic in the shield he erected to protect the baby.
For a brief, heart-stopping moment, it felt as though the entire manor was alive with her presence. Her magic was everywhere, pouring out of her in waves that hummed with sorrow, love, and resolve. He could feel it wrapping around him, pressing into the walls, and filling the air with a deep, aching energy that made his heart pound.
Then, as quickly as it had come, the light faded, and silence filled the room. Blinking through the afterglow, Orion's vision slowly returned, and he looked down to see Elenora lying still, her face peaceful, her eyes closed. The faintest trace of her earlier smile remained, but her body lay motionless. Her warmth, her energy, had all vanished.
Narrowing his eyes he quickly check on her but it was too late. His eyes widen.
'What did she do ?' Orion mutter with urgency in his tone. He knew that she was upto something but, did she took her own life ?
What was she thinking ?
Orion hurriedly put the baby down first and then check on her, use magic to know her condition. However, there was nothing.
Orion knelt beside her, a quiet emptiness settling over him as he reached out, gently placing a hand on her shoulder. She was gone. A fierce sadness welled up inside him, but he held back his emotions, staring at her in silent disbelief.
"I wouldn't mind talking for a little more you know....
MOM....
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Orion sat in stunned silence beside Elenora's lifeless form, his mind swirling with emotions that seemed too vast and heavy to grasp. Her death felt unreal, at first she absolutely could have been save but denied to be...
Next she did something, something strange which he didn't understood. And finally a crushing weight pressing down on him as how things have turn out for him still now.
He wasn't sure what he was more surprised about. Whether it was that he finally met his mother, and even his father, or that they were in front of him all this time and he didn't even knew.
Maybe the fact that he was indirectly responsible for his own birth. Or that he was a 70+ years old man and for some reason he didn't age.
There were too many question.
"I should never have come here..." He groan, his mind no longer working.
'Or maybe, this is not me at all. Maybe this little guy here is my father. Possible, both timeline and age indicate to that.' Orion suddenly thought and look down on the little baby sleeping peacefully.
At least he can say that this was related to him seeing that identical pendant in his hand.
He kept replaying the last moments over and over, searching for something he could have done differently, but there was nothing he could have done. When the woman was dead set on dying, what else he could do.
His chest ached with an emptiness he'd never known before. He'd faced battles, pain, even loss before, but nothing like this.
Its like he found something he was looking for and then that thing was immediately taken away from him. Elenora had been a bright presence in his life, though he knew that he can't stay here for long but still he like her presence, this feeling intensified on what he had learned just now.
A part of him felt angry—at himself, at the world, even at fate for taking her away. But mostly, he just felt lost.
This was the only time when he could have a little time to relax before he had to get going.
Explaining what happend here to both Credence and Dumbledore would be a nightmare.
Sighing he finally got up, taking the baby in his hand he was to get going. However, when he finally got out, that he realized that things are much more complex.
'What the hell she do ?' He was baffled.
No longer he found blood, corpses, furniture, building, anything. What was in front of him now was a forest. He was baffled at what just happened.
He looked back, the so call briefcase was there but this place. This wasn't Elenora's house.
Hell this didn't even look like America.
"An advice if you are really me. Don't bother growing up. The world is fucked up...."
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