There is so much more work that goes into a bonding ceremony than I had thought. Since this is pretty much a wedding, I want Serenity to have anything she wants. She doesn’t have friends, and her family is gone, so if there is anything else I can do to make her day special then I want to do that.
Right now, my main focus is that Serenity wants to practice her healing power. She had told me she almost forgot about it until she accidently burned herself cooking yesterday. Now, she wants to practice healing other people so that she can be ready to help the other brides if it comes to that. I know that is her main concern, considering what Furcas did to her. She is worried he’s going to leave them all like how he left her if he finds them before we do.
It would be easy for my dad to give up where the brides are, but he said they needed to be found when each bride’s soul will be open to acceptance of the sin.
“I need someone to practice on,” Serenity says, and everyone avoids looking at her.
“Why can’t you practice on yourself?” Leopold suggests.
“Why?” she asks and looks at him like he’s slow.
“What if we find your bride, and she has her guts hanging out and is seconds from death? Then you will have to wait until her soul recycles and she’s reborn, comes of age, and that is, of course, only IF her soul is ready to be tied to yours in this lifetime,” Serenity states.
My brothers all take in what she says. I can tell that they understand where she’s coming from. We spend most of our life already being hard to kill, so we didn’t deal with many injuries.
Each bride will be vulnerable.
“You make a good point,” Fredrick says thoughtfully.
“That means she will have to touch us though, and we don’t know how to block her yet,” Gareth says nervously.
“Got something you want to hide, brother?” I ask with a smirk.
“Of course not,” he says and immediately looks away.
Let’s face it, we all have our secrets; we have been around for centuries. The thing is that Gareth just made himself a target for Serenity. She will be determined to find out now.
“Then you can go first,” Serenity says, standing in front of him and grabbing a blade out of one of her hiding spots.
“Why would I go first?” he asks, crossing his arms and sitting back in his chair.
Serenity smirks at him.
“I’ll tell you which bride is next,” she says in a singing tone.
Everyone stills. “You don’t know,” Lorenzo states.
Serenity looks at him.
“Papa Lucifer was vulnerable and some information accidentally slipped,” she says with a shrug.
Lucifer looks at her with surprise.
“I guess my blocks were down for a minute or two,” he admits.
“Like I said, I wasn’t searching for any information beyond learning more about Furcas, but I can’t help that the bride’s information was exposed to me,” Serenity says.
“As long as you don’t tell the person who is next until it’s time,” Lucifer says, having complete trust in her.
“When will it be time?” she asks, looking at him.
“After your bonding ceremony,” my dad tells her.
“Yes, since I have no women to toss a bouquet to, I can toss information on the next bride. This will be fun,” she says while rubbing her hands together with excitement.
“Then we’ve got to get working on your ceremony,” Gareth says, trying to distract her.
“We need to be prepared. Sorry brother,” Otis says while looking at Gareth before nodding at Serenity.