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.

Selene's calm voice cuts through the chaos. Let me guide you. Focus on the bond between us. You're drowning in

has a sort of glow that doesn't exist in the real world. Something I can see with my mind's eye, despite

to discern a pattern in the chaos, a rhythm that pulses with a

His wolf.

moment I recognize it, his presence slams into me. Old memories mix with new. Selene's fury mix with her mild exasperation. Her desire

Ava.

this time, the frantic energy of his wolf engulfs me, a whirlwind of recognition, joy, and desperate frustration. He knows me. He sees

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He's half feral already.

Here but not here.

I want to reach out, to comfort him, but

mind, dragging it

but it

The hope of being reunited has incited. sort of madness in him. Just focus on me. Push away what doesn't

emotions buffet me from all sides, each one a vivid burst of sensation. His frustration at

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 in the intensity of

you, through Selene, through the bond. All you need to do is weaken this

suddenly fixate on how his

words are calm, though

cues to ground me, no physical sensations to anchor me to

presence.

reach for my magic, trying to summon that familiar warmth, but it's not there. It

exist.

frustration building. "I can't find it.

it coming

I can't tell.

think it might

my head.

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 emotions. I take a deep breath-or at least, I imagine I do. Her words anchor

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