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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.
Selene's calm voice cuts through the chaos. Let me guide you. Focus on the bond between us. You're
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
begin to discern a pattern in the
His wolf.
me. Old memories mix with new. Selene's fury mix with her mild exasperation. Her desire to tear out
Ava.
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
317 Ava Mindacapa
He's half feral already.
the wolf whines. Here but
anguish in that simple question breaks my heart. I want to reach out, to comfort him, but I don't know
at my mind, dragging it with her as we
but it isn't
her mental voice strained. The hope of being reunited has incited. sort of madness in
navigating through a storm with my eyes closed. The wolf's emotions buffet me from all sides, each one a
then, suddenly, I hit
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
Selene, through the bond. All you need to do is
to suddenly fixate on
Selene's words are calm, though strained.
to ground me, no physical sensations to anchor me to reality. Just emotions, energy, and the vague
presence.
my magic, trying to summon that
exist.
frustration building. "I can't find
is it coming from my
I can't tell.
it might be
my head.
the wrong way. It's in your very essence. Focus on your own feelings, Ava, Selene's voice cuts through the chaos. Find what's distinctly yours in this sea of
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