Tangled

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258 Ava: The Distance Between Us

By the looks on everyone's faces, they're thinking the exact thing I am.

"So, we won't only be fighting the enemy. We'll be fighting our friends. Family. Lovers."

My voice is flat and distant, the words feeling like they're coming from thousands of miles away.

"It is possible," Acarus murmurs, rubbing his eyebrow as he sighs. "Without knowing how they do it, how long it takes, what it involves..."

But my ears aren't listening. I'm thinking back to Sister Miriam and how she popped into my room out of nowhere to give me cryptic warnings. "Sister Miriam knew what they were doing.

Acarus hesitates. "In a sense, yes."

I pin him with a hard stare. "She knew what they were doing and never told us."

Marcus and Vanessa's gazes go dark; Sister Miriam has been a solid ally of recent times, but her nonanswers have not endeared her to the wolves.

The man claiming to be Sister Miriam's son holds up his hands. "Don't look at me like that. I do not have power over the knowledge my mother divulges, or doesn't."

Marcus scowls, and Acarus sighs. "Understand, my mother is full of knowledge. Some relevant. Some not. Things that never came to pass. Things that did. Most with clairvoyance go mad, living half in this world and half in another. Whatever information my mother deigns to share is a gift. It is not fair to put the weight of your world on her shoulders, don't you think? If she does it for you-then who next? How many more times must she go through several possibilities, never knowing which will come to pass?

When he puts it like that...

I shift uncomfortably, realizing that I've shredded my last piece of bread into little more than crumbs. "Where is she now?"

alpha. From what

leave Lucas'

up the

close I need to be to gain contact with Selene again?" I ask, throwing the question to any of them to answer. Acarus shakes his

A delta can reach Lucas over thirty miles away. Kellan and Lucas have been known to communicate at fifty miles, though it requires a great deal of concentration. Mos missions are created with these general guidelines

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Ava: The

first time I've heard it broken down in

about forty miles apart, but I can reach him from as far as one hundred. He can't respond,

"Can you reach-"

off gently, sadness in

course. She needs to see

than a hundred miles away. I think back to the times Selene and I have been apart. "I

No matter how close you are with your wolf, it takes time until you can think ast one. You and Selene have been at odds, haven't

quieter lately, and I question her

Marcus says out of nowhere.

we fall silent, Acarus clears his throat. "Now, as far as traveling to meet your allies-the journey to your pack is safer in these rural areas, Acarus says, his voice calm and reassuring. "There's little established wolf presence here,

joy, but

no wolf presence, how

hadn't even thought to ask. My mind had been so focused on the possibility of seeing Lucas that I'd overlooked the

acknowledging Vanessa's point. "He's in a small hospital run by supernaturals

narrowing with suspicion. "There

the far border."

fazed by Marcus's doubt. "These are registered supernaturals who have chosen to integrate with human society. They're not part of established communities in

in this place,