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helplessness, the room grew still – and at that moment, I wasn’t sure that I wanted to know. It was like having someone tell you that your life would end on this day at this time...who would want to know that?
     
    August leaned closer to the scrolls and began to study them more ambitiously than ever before.
     
    “The skies almost completely match what the scroll reflects around Venus. Now, to make you as strong as possible, we must find out how he plans to defeat you, understand what you’ll face so you’ll be prepared physically and mentally for anything he can use against you,” Perodine said, pulling her notepad closer to her.
     
    “Have you found any answers so far?” Marc asked.
     
    Perodine took in a deep breath as she read her notes over. “We’re pulling out the symbols now. Landen, have you tried to heal anyone on your own?” she asked.
     
    “Pelhan just taught me. Does it say that there?” he asked her.
     
    “We think this symbol of a fish and a hand means a Pisces healer; we just didn’t know if it was you or Drake,” Perodine answered.
     
    I felt the tension rise in the room; it was exhausting me.” I need to sit down,” I thought.
     
    “ Are you OK?” Landen thought.
     
    “ Just tired,” I thought as I slowly walked around the couch in front of the fireplace and fell into it. Dane took a seat on the opposite couch and protectively watched my every breath.
     
    “So who are we fighting here - Drake, Donalt, or both?” Marc asked.
     
    “I don’t know,” Perodine answered, still puzzled. As I gazed at the raging flames in the fireplace, Drake’s perfect image surfaced in my mind; all I could see was the pain I left in his eyes.
     
    “Tell me about what Venus will bring, the characteristics; is it not the planet of love?” Landen asked.
     
    Silence filled the room, and the tension continued to climb. I could feel August and Perodine struggling with the emotions they feared the worst, but they didn’t want to show it to us.
     
    “Just say it,” Landen said in a low tone.
     
    I heard August clear his throat before he began to speak. “Well, yes, it does influence love - most of the time. But Venus is entering retrograde in the sign of Scorpio,” he said.
     
    “Go on,” Landen said.
     
    I turned in my seat to see them behind me. Marc and Landen had their arms crossed, and Perodine and August were staring at each other as if they were trying to give one another some kind of hidden communication. Perodine looked past them at me, then back to Landen. “Your decisions will be made with a clarity that does not know the emotion of guilt. There will be nothing that can be held back; every truth that can be told, will be. Past relations will surface,” she said.
     
    “What do you mean? Relationships in past lives? We already had to deal with that,” Landen argued.
     
    “Son, that is not the part we’re worried about,” August said, sighing deeply. “You’ve had the privilege of making decisions with your heart, and the heart often has no clear reason. This time, Venus will influence you to make a rational decision based on what you see - not what you feel. Throughout history, it has been known as the heartless, the opposite of the love Venus normally gives us,” August said.
     
    Landen looked back at me, then to August. “Does this affect only me and Willow, or all of you?” he asked.
     
    “Everyone,” Perodine answered. “We must realize that now, because as the hours move forward and truths are revealed, we have to hinder our anger. This darkness feeds off the negative – and right now it’s being fueled by the workers on the other side of that wall.”
     
    “What truths? Willow and I have held nothing back, have we?” Landen asked, confused.
     
    “If you remove the emotion of love and look at things from a rational point of view, you will find a truth that has escaped you before,” Perodine answered.
     
    “Why did you think Drake was a healer?