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.

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

exist in the real world. Something I can see with my mind's eye, despite there being

tumultuous sea. Gradually, I begin to discern a pattern in the chaos,

His wolf.

Selene's fury mix with her mild exasperation. Her desire to tear

Ava.

his wolf engulfs me, a whirlwind of recognition, joy, and desperate frustration. He knows me.

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He's half feral already.

whines. Here

in that simple question breaks my heart. I want to reach out, to comfort him,

mind, dragging it with her as we go

rises, but it isn't as

strained. The hope of being reunited has incited. sort of

heed her 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. His frustration at being separated from Lucas is so intense

I

physical in this mental landscape-but it might as well 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 in my mind, startling

flow through you, through Selene, through the bond. All you need to do is weaken this place. Selene and his wolf will do

fixate on how

Ava. Selene's words are calm,

cues to ground me, no physical sensations to anchor me to reality. Just

presence.

my magic, trying to summon that familiar

exist.

can't find it. It's not... it's

coming from my body

I can't tell.

it might be

my head.

it in 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

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