#Chapter 375 – The Cost

Ella My internal screaming continues, echoing through me as I grab whatever bond I have to my Goddess mother and pull on it as hard as I can – And I’m still screaming, there, in my mind – and honestly maybe from my throat as well, I’m too far beyond myself now to know – when suddenly… …She’s here. My mother’s presence materializes first in my mind as she reaches for me, worried. “Ella!” I hear her say, her voice chiming against my own frantic screams, “Ella, I am here!” Shocked – shocked to feel her, shocked that it worked – I find myself thrown out of my meditative state and into my own body, which is still freezing cold. But when my eyes fly open I gasp to see that she’s – She’s actually here. Not just present in my mind – but standing before me. And as I blink frantically, letting my eyes adjust, I realize that she’s not…physically here. Not in the way she was when we met her in the desert. But she’s here in her spirit – she presents hers