A/N: Sadly, no one got it right. The correct answer was NAMES OF YU-GI-OH CARDS. Watch for it this time, during the vision.
-- The Phoenix He Helped Create --
- Chapter 26: May I Please Remain In This Space? -
The visions were coming more frequently. When she slept, when she woke. It didn't seem to matter anymore. Ever since she'd spoken to Loki directly, it was like this.
Was this the Chaos God's idea of helping? Of giving an unfair advantage to one of the avatars?
But Bella didn't understand the visions. Mostly they just gave her a headache. She should have known better than to beg favors from the god of mischief.
Black and white.
Red. Yellow.
Soul of the pure.
"Stay away!"
The chessboard. She stands in the black-moving bishop's position on the black side of the board.
Morphing jar.
Lightning.
The blue spark disappearing.
Bark of dark ruler.
The horse. The phoenix. The kirin.
My body as a shield.
Then she is awake and he is there. He is there, and their child is there, both of them looking at her with worried eyes. She scoops her daughter into her arms and leans against the dark Lord's shoulder. He wraps his arms around her, holding them both.
"I love you," she whispers, her voice rasping with tiredness. She gets no rest even in sleep. But here in his arms where she and their child are safe is the only place she wants to be right now.
She doesn't hear her daughter's returning whisper - "Love you too, Mommy" - because she is already sliding back into the world of dreams.
-tbc-
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