The Portal to Mortal - Maya Rainforest (different ereaders TXT) 📗

Woke this morning to the sounds of dragon hooves thundering through the glen. The Palfors were chasing those from my Lord Dayan's clan. I hid in the bushes to see if I could see what was going on. There were five of the others chasing two....it was my Lord Dayan and his brother Farr. They were ahead yet their steeds looked tired, the Palfor's beasts were much fresher.


I worried for my Lord but didn't feel I could intervene. Witch Marriya had told me not to intervene in the human's destiny otherwise I could bring untold Karma back to myself, not to mention cause a major disruption in the fabric of space and time.

Yet I had to do something....I decided to stick to the rules and not use my magic....well I only used a little....once I had seen my Lord Dayan and Farr ride clear of the thick blue bracken I used the pit-creating spell.


I remembered the words my grandmother had taught me when I was but a girl and would go hunting with my grandfather. A huge pit appeared within the bracken and all five Palfor's and their scaly beasts tumbled within.


Their screams of anguish didn't move me an inch, all I could think was that my Lord, my love, was safe. For now anyway.


The Palfor's kin came to their aid at dusk. They had taken their time I thought, perhaps they were taken up with the cheif's son's wedding? I hear it is only a few days away now. Poor Moralie.....to have to wed a Palfor, yet our kinsmen wish to be bonded, to stop feuding between us.


I wonder.....once we are bonded with the Palfors will I be allowed to wed Lord Dayan? I shall worry about that when the time comes, the most important thing is will Lord Dayan wed me? Can't really answer that one seeing as he has met me not in the physical world....only in Arrowsmoot. So....my next move...is to engineer a meeting.....

Moralie Maynor wed Pys today so now she is officially a Palfor! She isn’t happy about this but the fact that she is now regarded a princess by wedlock has made up for it. She says she finds Pys attractive and is happy to lay with him but that she will never love him as her heart belongs to one man and we all know who that is.

Poor Dyne, he is devastated now that Moralie is wed, the fact that Moralie has promised to carry on with their loving in secret has not made Dyne feel any better, he whispered to me today that he intends to bed every female from here to Magforth…and could he start with me! I laughed and gently but firmly reminded him that I was in love with a human and would give myself to no-one but him.

The big shock came during the wedding speech! Moralie’s Father offered his ‘virginal’ daughter to the son of the Chief Palfor, assuring all that his daughter was still intact! Me and the girls gave each other worried glances, apart from Morna who positively laughed out loud!!! (She herself has bedded too many to count, including Moralie’s new husband, so she has nothing to snigger at! )

I think she is jealous that Pys chose Moralie instead of her….but perhaps if Morna had kept herself pure then Pys would of wed her.

I took Moralie to one side during our visit to the ladies chamber. I asked her whatever would she do about the fact that Psy thought her intact?

Moralie pulled her jewelled handled blade from her garter. I didn’t quite see the significance of this and asked her if she was planning to murder her new husband in his sleep? She laughed and said that during lovemaking that night, at the moment of her husband’s entry into her, she would cut the fleshy inside of her thigh, as close as she could to her womanhood.

Passion would dull her husband’s senses so he would be unlikely to realise what she had done. She would then pretend that the bleed from her thigh was indeed her virginal bleed, and thus prove to her husband that she had indeed been intact before him.

I worry for her that she pulls it off. She would shame all her relatives if it were discovered she were not a maiden. Especially as she had been given to the Palfor Chief’s eldest son. Retribution would be demanded and the Palfor’s price is high.

I thank the gods I shall not have to play the same trick when I wed. I intend to stay a maid until the day I lie with My Lord Dayan….if that day ever comes…..I can but dream until then….

My sister came to see me today, she was very upset as she is still not yet with child. She has only been wed four months, that’s not a long time, but she is desperate to produce a son for her husband. She begged me to do the fertility spell with her.

I hesitated at this, as the spell does not always produce fertility in the way expected, but she pleaded, in the end I gave in. We danced in the circle and sprayed golden liquid on the little honey plant.

Finally she is to sleep with the rose crystal under her bedding for three nights. Let’s hope her union will be fruitful in the way she desires. The spell is a powerful one.

After she left, I was exhausted, magik always drains me. I went to my favourite place in the glen, by the river, and I saw him! He had stopped to water his horse.

I so wanted to make myself seen but the magik needed to cross over was just too strong, I had used so much earlier with the fertility spell, I could do nothing but watch.

Funny though, he turned to mount his horse and for a second I thought he looked straight at me, as if he could see me! Of course, this is impossible.

Unless I take human form, he will not see me. Yet he looked straight at me? My heart was beating as it never had before, then he turned and mounted the mare and rode off.

I so wanted him to see me, I was willing it. I like to think he may have seen my outline or on some level sensed me. I spoke to Witch Marriya of this but she confirmed it was impossible as I had thought.

Almost all humans cannot either see, or sense us. But Witch Marriya did tell me of a small minority of humans who are able to perceive us, there are some that posses sight into our world. I like to believe Lord Dayan possesses the sight, but Witch Marriya says he does not.

Never mind, next time I shall be stronger and not weak from fertility spells and I shall make myself seen. I cannot wait for that day!

I am so cross! Morna crossed over today and met with Lord Dayan! Not only she she break the rules by meeting Lord Dayan, she took a new born baby cat across with her! (This is totally against our rules and she knows it, she will be in much trouble for endangering the animal.)

I declared my love for the human in the circle more than twelve months ago, I swore this in front of our chief and the blessing was given for me to pursue this union.

How dare Morna step in and humiliate me in this way? She says it was just an innocent meeting and that she had crossed over purely to find fireflys for her invisibility spell, but I do not believe her.

She has lain with most of my friend's husbands and objects of desire, she seems to have a desperate need to be viewed as attractive by every male. I am soooo cross with her.

However, no harm has been done, thank goodness, Lord Dayan showed no interest in Morna whatsoever, in fact he seemed pre-occupied with something and was quite stand offish with her.

She says she cannot understand what I want him for and why don't I settle for one of our kind? I told her to mind her own business and if she was so desperate for a husband, to go find one of her own, rather than enticing everyone else's mate into her arms.

I told her It shall take me a long while to trust her again and that she had better not 'accidently' bump into My Lord Dayan again!


I plan to cross over myself tomorrow and I pray my Lord is not as indifferent towards me as he was with Morna today!