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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.
exist in the real world. Something I can see with
Gradually, I begin to discern a pattern in the chaos, a rhythm that pulses with a
His wolf.
I recognize it, his presence slams into me. Old memories mix with new. Selene's fury mix with her mild exasperation. Her desire to
Ava.
joy, and desperate frustration.
317 Ava Mindacapa
He's half feral already.
wolf whines. Here
anguish in that simple question breaks my heart. I want to reach
dragging it
but it
mental voice strained. The hope of being reunited has incited. sort of madness
closed. The wolf's emotions buffet me from all sides, each one a vivid burst of sensation. His frustration at being separated from Lucas is so intense that it's almost a
then, 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 about him in the
you need
fixate on how
Selene's words
place of pure sensation. There are no visual cues to ground me, no physical sensations to
presence.
magic, trying to summon that familiar warmth,
exist.
say, frustration building. "I can't find it. It's
speaking, but is it coming
I can't tell.
it might be
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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