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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.
calm voice cuts through the chaos. Let me guide you. Focus on
glow that doesn't exist in the real world. Something
tumultuous sea. Gradually, I begin to discern a pattern in the chaos, a rhythm that pulses with a
His wolf.
Old memories mix with new. Selene's fury mix with her mild exasperation. Her desire to tear out his throat
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.
317 Ava Mindacapa
He's half feral already.
whines. Here
in that simple question breaks my heart. I want to reach out, to comfort him, but I don't know
it with her as
rises, but it
has incited. sort of madness in him. Just
heed her advice, but it's like navigating through a storm with my eyes closed. The wolf's emotions buffet me from all sides, each one a vivid
suddenly, I hit a
an abrupt halt. It's like 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
magic, Ava. Let it flow through you, through Selene, through the bond. All you need to do
on how his
words are calm, though strained.
disorienting, existing in this place of pure sensation. There are no visual cues to ground me, no physical sensations to anchor
presence.
summon that familiar warmth, but
exist.
say, frustration building. "I can't
it coming from my
I can't tell.
it might
my head.
Focus on your own feelings, Ava, Selene's voice cuts through the chaos. Find what's distinctly yours in this sea of emotions. I take a deep breath-or at least, I imagine I do. Her words
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