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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.
cuts through the chaos. Let me guide you. Focus on the bond between us.
the real world.
I begin to discern a
His wolf.
Selene's fury mix with her mild exasperation. Her desire to tear out
Ava.
buffers me from the memories. 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.
wolf whines. Here
I want to reach out,
yanks at my mind, dragging it with her as we
it isn't as
you, she says, her mental voice strained. The hope of being reunited has incited. sort of madness in him. Just focus
sides, each one a vivid burst of sensation. His frustration at being separated from
I hit
brought to an abrupt halt. It's like trying to
Ava. Let it flow through you, through Selene, through the bond. All you need to
to suddenly fixate on how his wolf
Ava. Selene's words are calm,
cues to ground me, no physical sensations
presence.
my magic, trying to summon that familiar warmth, but it's not there.
exist.
I say, frustration building. "I can't find
is it coming from my
I can't tell.
think it might be
my head.
voice cuts through the chaos. Find what's distinctly yours in this sea of emotions. I take a
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