Chapter 3- I don't understand
"Daddy I don't understand." Six year old O whined.
"What don't you understand?" Carter asked patiently as he held his sleeping niece and watched his son play.
"How can someone have two people inside of them?" Carter wondered whether he was talking about Zia being pregnant for a second time or about Zia and Walt hosting gods.
"What do you mean?"
'Like uncle Wanubis." Oh good, not the pregnant thing. Carter wasn't sure how he would explain that one if O ever did ask.
"Well, its complicated buddy, but its not a person, its a god. sometimes they come without invitation and sometimes you invite them. They make you stronger but its difficult to have complete control."
"But how?!"
"It just happens buddy. I don't know how it happens, Its really complicated. You've got to trust me. I'm never going to let it happen to you. You're perfect as you are O. I don't want magic consuming your life. Its a complicated life style, being a magician."
"I like magic."
"I know. But its not always fun. Sometimes you have to make some difficult decisions or hurt people you love. And sometimes you have to let go of people." He thought about losing his dad and let out a sigh. Ruby shifted in his arms, murmuring sleepily and he handed her back to Sadie. O climbed in his lap.
"Don't be sad daddy." O said, smiling at him.
"I won't be."
"Magic isn't bad is it?" O asked, he had no idea.
"It can be. Sometimes it can take what you care about most from you. It can be used for evil and it can be completely infuriating." This prompted the memory of shabti Zia. He'd hated himself after that had happened, and he'd almost gone mad searching for her. But now she was his wife and everything should be okay right? But the memories still bugged him and his life as a young magician haunted him to this day. But he hugged his son and let himself forget for awhile.
Don't trust magic.