Forever in the Past and Forever in the Future

Chapter 18

I wait as patiently as I can for Lenora to finish giving Kas a hug. She finally lets her go and kisses her on the cheek.

"I mean it. No more scaring me," she wags her finger

at Kas.

"I promise, Lenora. No more scaring you," Kas smiles back with a nod before turning to me. She takes her hand out of mine and brushes her fingers on the side of my face.

"All I want to do is pull you into my lap and hold you all night, Baby, but I need you to tell us about your vision before you forget. Can you do that?"

"Yeah b-but," she looks at me with watery eyes, "Can you tell me if James is okay? Was that real or part of my vision?"

"It was real, Kas. Don't worry, he'll recover. We can take you to the hospital wing to see him tomorrow. Okay?" Lenora squeezes her hand in reassurance.

Kas nods, looking at her hands for a moment. She collects herself so she can concentrate. When she's ready, she takes a ragged breath and tells us about what she saw.

"I think I saw some of the people who kidnapped me. There was a woman that looked just like Lenora, but maybe she was a little older? Or something about her seemed old, even though she looked young. She knew my name. She called me Iokaste. There was also a woman with dreadlocks and red eyes. She mind linked me, but it wasn't a real mind link. I could actually see her words in my mind."

Kas squeezes her eyes closed for a minute, then opens her eyes and looks at the nightstand. She grabs her journal and pen and scribbles something down on a page.

'Essai dynatós. Empistéfsou ta énstiktá sou.'

what I saw," Lenora and I trade a confused look. Kas has never remembered this much detail from a vision before, and this message

like Greek. I will see if Musu can translate it," Lenora takes a picture of the page with her phone and sends it to Musu. "So then, um, I think I had a vision inside my vision?" a confused look crosses Kas's face, "but I-I'm pretty sure it was the past. Not the future, like it usually is. It seems like it was a past life,

her hand over her sternum while she

bond?" I ask as gently as possible, but in reality, I'm feeling a tinge of jealousy that Kas could

It was more like something connected our essences to each other,” her voice is soft, "She said something else in that language, but I understood it in

this huge burst of energy come out of my body. I felt like a bomb was exploding out of me.

lean my head on top of hers. As soon as I fold my arms around her, she begins to bawl. Between her sobs, she says she didn't mean to hurt James. She doesn't want to hurt

stronger every day since she came to Blood River. She isn't the Luna and leader that everyone loves and respects. Right now, she is a scared nineteen-year-old girl, who grew up not being able to trust anyone around her. She was lonely, scared, and trying to hide from the world. It's the deep dark part of her we all wish never existed. I know it will never go

phone ding. She

"Is that Musu?"

means 'You are strong. Trust your instincts',” she says with a knit brow

mate.

she shrugs back. Lenora gives Kas one last sympathetic look before kissing the top of her head and

send a mind link.

the words

leave.

thinking about the translation. Clearly, someone else has as much faith in her as I do. I just have to figure

pulls away from me

caress her face, hoping I

if the red-eyed woman is a prisoner, too? What if she wasn't allowed

Syndrome. Then the captors would want them to convince the newer prisoner to