I looked over at Kayden, whose eyes were already swollen with tears. He wiped the last of his tears and surprised me with his answer. "No. I'm not as strong as my mother apparently wanted me to be. I don't think I'll be able to take it. Just tell me something, did she suffer before she died?" Kayden questioned, looking Voithós straight in the eyes.
"Apart from suffering the pain of being separated from the children she loved so much and the agony of losing her soul little by little, her death was quick and painless. When she realized it was finally time, she smiled and prayed silently that goddess Selene would watch over and protect you and your brother, and then she closed her eyes and fell into an eternal sleep," Voithós explained, and Kayden nodded.
Everything that was going on only terrified me. I had no idea what Kayden could possibly be thinking. He doesn't seem to do well with grief, and I just hope he can handle it properly.
"After your mother's death, your father was so angry that he dared to call the goddess's book a curse on the world, and so he tried to destroy it. Selene is kind, and she understood that his foolishness and impudence were as a result of his grief and bereavement, so she withheld punishment and let him realize on his own that what he sought to do was impossible.
The book was created by the goddess herself, so it couldn't be destroyed, and he learned the hard way. He tried to destroy the book by tearing it, burning it, and doing all sorts of things, but it remained as good as new, unharmed due to the magical barrier protecting it.
He then turned to the use of vampiric magic. He had a very powerful vampire try to destroy it with the most powerful of vampire magic, and the magic only managed to weaken the barrier, causing the magnificent cover of the book to wither away but still, nothing happened to the book.
Alpha Nicholas finally realized that it couldn't be destroyed, so he gave up and instead tried to hide the book far away so it would never be found by anyone and no one else would be unfortunate enough to experience the curse of the magic of the book, as he had stated," Voithós said with a grin, making it seem as if any of what he was saying was funny. This is the closest thing to a smile that I've seen on him, but right now, I can't seem to suppress the urge to smack it off his face. He's seemingly enjoying himself at Kayden's expense.
"He couldn't figure out where to put it that would make sure that it would never be found by anyone, so he decided to hide the book far away in his library, and he made strict laws that no one was to go near the library unless they were specifically told to.