Tangled

Chapter 317

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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

ent 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.

through the chaos. Let me guide you. Focus on the bond between us.

has a sort of glow that doesn't exist in the real world. Something I can

begin to discern a pattern

His wolf.

mix with new. Selene's fury mix with her mild exasperation. Her desire to

Ava.

But this time, the frantic energy of his wolf engulfs me, a whirlwind of recognition, joy, and desperate frustration. He knows me. He sees me as his mate, his other half. But there's an underlying current

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He's half feral already.

wolf whines. Here

question breaks my heart. I want to reach out, to comfort him,

yanks at my mind, dragging it

it isn't as intense

voice strained. The hope of being reunited has incited. sort of madness in him. Just focus on me. Push away

through a storm with my eyes closed. The wolf's emotions buffet me from all sides, each one a vivid burst of sensation. His frustration at being separated

I hit

trying to push through solid stone with my bare hands. This is it, Grimoire's voice echoes in my mind, startling me. I'd almost forgotten about him in the intensity of the experience. This is the barrier we need to

it flow through you, through Selene, through the bond. All you need to do is weaken this place. Selene and his wolf

it strange to suddenly fixate on how his

now, Ava. Selene's words are calm, though strained.

existing in this place of pure sensation. There are no visual cues to ground me, no physical sensations

presence.

for my magic, trying to summon that familiar

exist.

frustration building. "I can't find it. It's not...

but is it coming from my body or

I can't tell.

it might

my head.

your own feelings, Ava, Selene's voice cuts through the chaos. Find what's distinctly yours

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