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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.
me guide
a sort of glow that doesn't exist in the real world. Something I can see with my mind's eye,
begin to discern a pattern in the chaos, a rhythm that
His wolf.
slams into me. Old memories mix with new. Selene's fury mix with her mild exasperation. Her desire to tear out his throat
Ava.
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
317 Ava Mindacapa
He's half feral already.
the wolf whines. Here
breaks my heart. I want to
it with her as we go
rises, but it
her mental voice strained. The hope of being reunited has incited. sort of madness in him.
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 burst of sensation.
suddenly, I hit a
be. One moment I'm swimming through a sea of emotions, and the next, I'm brought to an abrupt halt. It's like trying to push through solid stone with my bare hands. This is it, Grimoire's voice echoes
through Selene, through the bond. All you need to do
suddenly fixate on how his
words are
ground me, no physical sensations to anchor
presence.
for my magic, trying to summon that familiar warmth, but it's not there.
exist.
I say, frustration building. "I can't find
coming from my body or
I can't tell.
it might
my head.
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
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