Phoebe did not have the ti to respond to Arrow's question and even if she did, she lacked the desire to talk about herself. She was not asking him about his ice magic and spells so there was no need for him to ask her about her magic.
Aside from Arrow, another curious person in the cave was Maureen. She knew Phoebe was really great with magic, but she had not seen her heal a person before. If she had known that her niece could insta-heal like a gaming character, they could have hunted more than they did.
She was literally a walking hospital so what did they have to fear?
"Hey, what's the deal with her?" Arrow took his question to Maureen.
Blinking rapidly, Maureen stretched her hands towards Arrow and shook them, gesturing that she had no clue what was going on. "Do not ask , I do not know what is happening either, my niece has her secrets like the rest of us." Her voice ca laced with curiosity, suddenly her eyes lit up like a bulb in a dark room when she rembered the baby. "Its Star is it not?" She carelessly uttered.
She folded her lips quickly and suddenly found sothing interesting in her bag that she needed to find.
"Aunt, prepare so mory erasers." Phoebe shouted out.
anwhile, David was in a daze. "Star?" He whispered. Phoebe had told him about the baby being nad Star, but she had not told him that she could bring a person back from the brink of death. David shook his head, maybe he was thinking too much, he figured.
There was sothing else even more puzzling and it was that Phoebe did not need him to provide energy at this mont, yet he was her charger. Insecurity flickered within him montarily, what did this an for him? Was he useless to her now? The only reason why she had ever allowed him to co back into his life was because he was useful. She had made it clear that she did not want to marry ever again. David pulled his brows closely together.
David's worry pushed him to approach Phoebe, and he put a hand on her waist, replenishing the energy that she had used.
"Arrow, can you start clearing the way?" Maureen asked.
Arrow was glad to have sothing to do so he started working on clearing the path. Magic was not predictable, even if Phoebe healed Cassie, there was no guarantee that she would heal completely. It was best to get the child to a hospital.
"How are you doing this?" David asked Phoebe.
Phoebe lifted his hand and placed it on her tummy. "It's her David, we nad her Star, I told you about it. She is a very special kid." She covered her hand over his.
Suddenly David jerked his hand back as if it had been burned. "Ouch! What was that?" He stared at her quizzically, the feeling of current shock tingling in his hand.
Arrow had not gone far, and he returned at the speed of light, worried about his friend. He was in ti to hear about the baby.
"Daddy-daughter bonding I guess or maybe you did sothing to piss her off because she did not shock the rest of us." Maureen let out a asured laugh. "Your baby has quite the temper for a tiny human."
"Woah! your girlfriend is pregnant. I have a lot of questions but congratulations man." Arrow t his fist with that of David, grinning. "Drinks are on tonight."
"I am having a daughter; I am so frightened. Girls are very tender and cute and cuddly. You do know that I intend to na you godfather, right?" David laughed.
"Aweso." Arrow shot a fist out. "Roman and Thomas are going to sulk."
Collin who had been tending to his mother and sister lifted his eyes to Phoebe's stomach. "You are pregnant!" He seed stunned, the elent of surprise coated in his tone. He still harbored that perhaps Phoebe would leave Saxon and run into his waiting arms, this was the nail in the coffin that confird that he had no chance with her, ever.
"A lot has happened during your absence Baltimore." Maureen responded, her tone nonchalant. "Back to our business, I hope you understand that we have to erase all your mories starting from the day you t Connie, maybe even before. Your sister Cassie is unrepentant, reconciliation and forgiveness between the two is impossible it seems." She inford him. "Moreover, you all seem not to care much about Connie and more about Cassie. I understand that you want to move on with your lives and that is exactly what is going to be done."
A groan left Lydia's lips as she regained consciousness, then panic set in. "What__ where_Connie?" Her eyes moved to Cassie who was laying in her brother's arms. "Is she__she dead?" The question trembled out of her quivering lips.
"You missed all the fun Lydia but that aside, you should know that this is not really over. These girls will never get along and Connie will not stop tornting Cassie and there are other girls whose lives are at stake. So that ans that we have to erase all the mories of Connie ever existing in your lives." Maureen relayed to them, it was the only plausible solution.
Lydia tucked in breath like she had been punched. "What do you an erase her from our mories? She is my daughter; how can you make forget her? Listen if Cassie asks Connie for forgiveness sincerely then everything will be okay. We are her family; how do you expect us to live like she never existed? How?" Tears spewed out of her eyes.
Walking up to Lydia, Phoebe took hold of her hands. "While you were unconscious, Connie almost killed Cassie and Cassie said that she would rather die than apologize. She was willing to give up her life rather than admit that she was wrong. The two cannot co-exist especially not if Connie still rembers what Cassie did because she will always be out to get her. We cannot risk this happening again. I am sorry but for Cassie and Connie's sakes, you need to forget so things. You do not have to worry because Connie has a new family with us already." She squeezed her fingers a little. "We will take care of her until she moves one."
Lydia's lips parted to say sothing, but her son tapped her shoulder and nodded. "Mother if you saw how resentful and angry Connie was, you would not object. If Phoebe says that this is the only way then it probably is. I don't like it either, but we have lost a lot. What if we lose Cassie too? What if I lose you? Let's keep the childhood mories, maybe it will be better if we just think that Connie died young." A sob tore through him, tears following like an afterthought.
Phoebe got a pen and notebook; she wrote down a spell that baby Star gave her and then she passed it out. "Let's use this spell, it will erase all the pictures, records and mories of her in existence everywhere."
"You can do that!" Collin exclaid.
Phoebe did not answer him; she prepared the materials needed for the spell like a drop of water from fountain in the space. A shard of a mirror that had been bathed in moonlight, a piece of Connie's mories and an hourglass. Maureen and David placed the physical objects at cardinal points.
The guardians and Phoebe placed their hands on the Baltimore's heads and got rid of all mories that had a link to Connie, ending at the age of four when she drowned in a pond.
Over and over, they chanted, "Weave into oblivion, erase the na, let shadows be all that remain. Eclipse the life."
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