Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

Chapter 317

Chapter 317 Ava: Mindscape

Diving into my bond with Selene is like falling into warm clouds. It's an odd feeling to enter a mental space, but she draws me in naturally, her expertise in this space far outstripping mind.

It's as if my body is separate now, almost a distant memory.

I can't feel the air on my skin. Can't feel the ground I'm sitting on. Even the weight of Selene's body against mine is gone.

There's no smell here.

It isn't even accurate to describe this place as darkness.

It's just—void.

This isn't a place of physical senses, but something else. An energy of the mind, with its own current that ebbs and flows.

As I sink deeper, initial comfort gives way to a maelstrom of emotions so intense, so raw, that I nearly lose myself in them. It's as if I'm drowning in a sea of feelings that aren't entirely my own, yet resonate within me on a primal level.

I want to rage at the fleeting memory of my mate rejecting our fate.

I want to cry as I die alone, the last of my pack.

I'm suffused in wonder as my eyes open to a new life.

Panic. Longing. Frustration. Love. They crash over me, intense and impossible to control, coming and going in such fleeting moments that I can't hold my own.

As soon as I recognize a memory as not mine, it's gone, replaced by another that drowns me in how real it feels.

Focus, Ava, Selene's calm voice cuts through the chaos. Let me guide you. Focus on the bond between us. You're drowning in my memories.

The bond between us has a sort of glow that doesn't exist in the real world. Something I can see with my mind's eye, despite there being nothing here.

She steers me through the tumultuous sea. Gradually, I begin to discern a pattern in the chaos, a rhythm that pulses with a familiar energy.

His wolf.

his presence slams into me. Old memories mix with new. Selene's fury mix with her mild exasperation. Her

Ava.

me, a whirlwind of recognition, joy, and desperate frustration. He knows me. He sees me

He's half feral already.

the wolf whines. Here

in that simple question breaks my heart. I want to reach out,

dragging it with

but it isn't

of being reunited has incited a sort of

it's like navigating through a storm with my eyes closed. The wolf's emotions buffet me from all sides, each one a vivid burst of sensation. His

I hit a

through a sea of emotions,

forgotten about him in the

All you need to do is weaken this place. Selene and his

to suddenly fixate on

Ava. Selene's words

cues to ground me, no physical sensations to anchor me to reality. Just emotions,

to summon that familiar warmth, but

I say, frustration building. "I can't find it.

is it coming from my body or

I can't tell.

think it might

it in the wrong

through the chaos. Find what's distinctly yours in this sea

I imagine I do. Her words anchor me, giving me

for Lucas. That's mine. Undeniably, irrevocably

his eyes light up when he looks at

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