Queen Mother: Secrets of the Night "Creatures", #2

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Courtesian => Y’satnaf Council, the Queen Mother’s trusted advisors

Datier => Daughter

Deliad => the death potion, it is a poison that attacks the vital organs, causes excruciating pain and kills within moments of administration.

Demoans => Demons; aptly named because it is what they do to their victims.

Dnasnam => Sandman

Dracons => Shiftons, alternate form is dragon

Dream Erklaw => A dream walker is someone that has the ability to move through the dreams of a person, whether day or night dreams doesn’t matter.  They also have extrasensory ability.  They can sense a move in battle.

Egam => Mage, person that is a servant bat has latent abilities to duplicate the abilities of those around them for a limited period of time.

Eplai’es  => Place of peace and refuge for the Nymphil people; only the Marcone family only family allowed to own land in the area

Etam => Committed one or mate.

Exit greeting => How beautiful a gift that is to share.  Adieau, Gran Matier, until the eve of judgment I share my heart with thee. With thee I share my heart until our spirits, this world depart.  Be safe and stay your blade. Yes, mother. I shall not move in haste.

Evo => Love

Feairie  => Fire Fairies

Foresayers => Some of the most powerful beings ever created; are most powerful Mentalists, for lack of a better word.  Their abilities manifest with their minds being their most powerful weapons.  They usually can see the future or manipulate elements of the present by controlling time.  The tales include those that have the ability to control minds surrounding them.  They can communicate intention through touch.

Foresayer L’ahelle => The place where the Queen Mother has her meetings and delivers the messages to the Veering Unit and Navi Protectoret.

Gran Matier  => a sign of reverence from a child to their mother.

Grand Mother => the all-knowing Foresayer and Shifton with ultimate abilities to foresee things that will endanger the lives of her family members and her people. She has the ability to control minds surrounding her, can communicate intention through touch. She is also a Shifton that has the ability to shift or change her form to a Mamalii or humanoid of her choosing.  She is the one that few know much about but all fear. 

Half-Linea  => those that are born with lineage from two different Creatures lines. 

Hu’Nan  => a neighboring area that houses similar creatures as the Y’satnaf. At war, due to the fact that the Mistress Veering is stealing the children of their people and feasting on them.

Intended  => The one that your soul seeks and connects with.

Mamalii  => Mammal form; the humanoid title of the species of the Y’Satnaf people.

Matier  => an affectionate name to call one’s mother.  Patier is the father’s.

Merr => Mermaids and mermen with the ability regenerate parts of their bodies.

Navi Protectoret => Chosen descendant (s) of the royal family that goes forward and carries out the plans to protect the Y’satnaf people from foreseeable harm or danger.

Nymphil => Nymph, creatures of the forest that aid in growth and renewal within the lands

Observer, The => unknown person that recorded information on Kin and Hari

Patier => an affectionate name to call one’s father.  Matier is the mother. 

Queen Mother => the first born Sorcerei and Foresayer

Shifton  => those who have control over their form and can change from the animal or Mamalii their spirit has been touched by.  They usual shift from that form to the humanoid form.  In rare cases, they have the ability to shift between the two Mamalii of their lineage and the humanoid form.

Sontier => Son, affectionate name stated by parent (s)

Veering Unit => Those that were protectors of the Queen Mother and the royal family.

Y’Satnaf => the creatures that go bump in the night.  The characters of myths and fairytales. 

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  Alkinai Carthage-Veering (Kin) – stolen from mother, Zephora & father, Devianté; Intended, Katana Marcone; father to Destiny Marcone-Carthage Veering. The last son.

  Azalea Marcone – Etam to Kaleb

  Dr. Calevai Navi (Cal) – eldest brother of Alkinai and Dahariel.

  Dahariel Navi (Hari) – older brother and protector of Alkinai

  Destiny Navi – daughter of Alkinai and Katana; inherits Natalia’s powers

  Devianté Veering (Devi) – father of the Navi children; Etam of Zephora

  Edowuan Marcone – father to Katana; Librarian, keeper of the histories, member of the Courtesian (Y’satnaf Council)

  Jocelynn Marcone – stepmother to Katana

  Kaleb – brother to Katana

  Karmen – sister to Katana

  Lecoletta Fierré (Colie) – best friend of Katana, crushing on Roann

  Lisa – sister to Katana

  Markeeta – sister to Katana

  Natalia (Grand Mother/Gran Matier) – Mother Grand; mother to Zephora and Angel Faere

  Nathaniel – young guy, being personally trained by Kin and Hari

  Naveon (Nave) – brother to Alkinai and Dahariel, second oldest son

  Phoebe Anchoresin – baker and owner of Sin-full Treats and Eats Bakery

  (Roann) Carnem Roann -  is the son of Terrill and Viccaria  Diamone, cousin to Alkinai and the rest of the crew

  Secreta Navi (Cray) – sister to the Navi boys, middle child, only girl

  Stoletta Raife (Lettie) - best friend of Katana, crushing on Dr. Navi

  Terrill Diamone Veering – brother to Devianté; one half of a deadly killing team.  Father/Uncle to Alkinai.

  Viccaria Diamone Veering – Etam (in name only) of Terrill, leader of the Demoans, mother/aunt to Alkinai.

  Zephora Carthage-Veering (Zephie, Queen Mother) – mother of the Navi-Veering children and all powerful Foresayer

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The Queen Mother listens intently as her mother relayed the events and tales the siblings shared.  She wondered to herself if she’d be able to be as accepting as her children have been.

Zephie (Zephora’s nickname), you needn’t fret so. They are first and foremost your sons.  Their innate nature is that of nurturer.  Your children have had enough of a battle and a possibly greater one to come.  Times for celebrations are now. Not worrying festering, old wounds, Mother Grand stated.

"I’ve had an unknown enemy taking the lives of my people for sport for so long that I cannot so easily dismiss it as everyone desires that I do.  It will take time for me to be able to remove the pain it caused. It is a greater pain to know the sons I bore, mourned for, then searched tirelessly for are the very ones that caused our people to live in fear.  I do take pleasure in knowing that they are once again united on the right side of this pending war.  My heart aches still because so many were needlessly lost.  If only..." she attempted to explain to her mother, but found she grew even more frustrated. 

Tis not your own to bear, my love.  Those men are the same boys, the very same babes that you would’ve protected with your life.  Judge not for you might find yourself judged, her loving husband, Devianté, spoke. 

His rugged good looks and optimistic nature always surprised her.  He’d changed so much over the years.  It was all for the good of her people and the betterment of their relationship. The innate nature of his being was to be that of a killer, a dethroner.  He and his brother had been two of the most notorious hired henchmen over all the realms until she and he had crossed paths. 

Their beginning was a rocky start since he’d been trying to kill her and all, but they ended up falling in love.  He fought that tooth and nail.  His brother had convinced him that it was impossible for their kind to love.  The Demoan lord had not wanted to ever lose his brother to anyone.  He really hated the fact that he was losing him to a good for nothing Y’satnaf queen to be as he so lovingly referred to her. 

While Devianté had fought with his brother, he had to contend with attempting to win the heart of the woman that he’d grown to be infatuated with.  It wasn’t until he’d almost died at his brother’s hand that she’d been willing to listen to what it was that he had declared countless times before.  The rest is history, as they say.

I’m done with the subject.  This is not something you could understand. I am torn between my duty to my throne and my heart that knows my blessing.  I have a decision to make.  I will take my leave of you both. I have much to contemplate and I cannot do so with this incessant buzzing that continues here in the palace, she responded tersely. 

We are but the equivalent of bees, dear Mother Grand?  What a demotion?  You may take your leave, my dear, but could you bear to do what you are called to do? Could you strike against an already burning inferno with only a glass of water?  Decide what is best based upon the things that drive you to be better than you know you are.  Adieu, my beautiful queen.  Our grand calls to me even in her slumbering state, Devianté responded.

How beautiful a gift that is to share?  Adieu, my Intended. Adieu, Gran Matier, until the eve of judgment I share my heart with thee, Zephora began the exit blessing she always performed with her mother.

With thee I share my heart until our spirits this world depart.  Be safe and stay your blade, her mother quickly replied. 

Yes, Mother. I shall not move in haste, was the ending reply as she moved toward her mother.

They shared a quick embrace then the Queen Mother squatted before the Grand Mother.  With a final kiss to her forehead from her mother, she set off to make the decision no mother should ever have to make. She had one stop to make before she could exit.  Standing in her chambers, she made the decision to a look one final time.

Zephora looked into the full length mirror and called to it in her native tongue.  It clouded then the reflective surface changed to reflect the faces of her children sitting around an open pitted fire laughing and trading stories.  As she pulled each child’s profile forward in a panoramic view, she watched as their brows furrowed.  She knew they could feel her presence even if they didn’t know that she was the one that was behind the familiar peace that called to them.  It emitted from her without her calling it forth.  When her eyes fell upon the two brothers that were the best of friends, a tear slipped from her eye.  The two were fortunate enough to grow up together and forge a bond the other siblings would probably never completely understand.

Could you do it, Evo (Love)? Could you do what the edict calls you to do? she heard her husband question.  Could you do what some of your people would call you to do to our masterful sons even though we have just come to know them and those they bring with them?

"How could any woman call herself a mother, watch the bonds that form between her offspring and still remain said mother, their mother after...?  Yet, how as Queen Mother, knowing what the edict calls for, could I