Chapter 15

I’d slipped back into a deep sleep almost immediately after sending a message via courier raven for Gwendoline to meet me at the mutant-vampire subterranean kingdom.  The courier raven wouldn’t be able to penetrate the portal to Verso, so my message needed to be delivered to Desolation and then be taken to Gwendoline by one of Desolation’s residents with the courage and ability to enter Verso when the need arose. Since the residents of Desolation revered Gwendoline, I was sure her safety was a priority.  I was fearful of prying eyes reading my request and refusing to deliver it to my mentor, but I felt I had no choice but to send for her. Something was disturbingly wrong with me. It was more than just being pregnant.  Pregnancy shouldn’t make me feel as weak as I felt. 

I was concerned about the courier raven reaching its destination. I wasn’t sure a message was ever sent to Desolation from Vampire Land. To insure the raven fo