"What?"

I'd guessed it, but hearing Nyx confirm it twits something inside my chest.

"You can sense new life about to begin, while Xena senses a life when it's about to end" Nyx says.

"So, anything or anyone about to die, she feels that?"

"Yes."

I press a hand on my chest, feeling as if a heavy weight has been placed there.

Beneath the fear I felt at discovering my new powers, there was also a kind of excitement. Being able to sense life, like Nyx said, brings happiness and joy; I can't imagine what being able to sense someone is about to die feels like.

No one wants to know their loved one is about to die, now imagine being able to sense anything or anyone about to die?

"Xena hated her powers." Nyx voice cuts through my thoughts. "She said it felt like a curse."

And I can imagine why she'd feel that way. Being able to sense death isn't a power I'd like to have.

lost in our own thoughts... That's until, just ahead, the silence of the forest

trees, thin and raw, barely

Someone crying.

the

faint, but they're

me forward before I've even decided what to do. My feet move on instinct, crunching softly over damp leaves as I follow the trail of muffled sobs. The closer I get, the sharper they become. Quiet gasps breaking through

I

her face buried in them. Her shoulders shake as the tears slip free, and my

careful, like approaching

second, she tries to wipe her face, to

cracks, and she gives up the pretense with a shaky laugh. "And I didn't want anyone to see

beside her. "Well... I couldn't sleep

a laugh and a sob. "What is it with us

and that gets a real laugh out of her, even

listening to the morning birds beginning to stir in the branches above

yesterday?" I finally

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