Chapter 117-1
Troy
Her scream cut right through me, but her hand was still in mine.
Clam
“Kiana?” I tried to pull her closer to me. The smoke continued to billow around us, but nothing was
touching us or hurting us.
“Run,” she shouted. “We have to run!”
The smoke receded, and the forest raced by us. Ahead of us, a wolf snarled and paced, constantly looking over his shoulder at us. It felt like we were running for our lives.
But our legs weren’t moving.
Next to me, Kiana breathed hard. “Don’t let go of me, Troy. We have to keep moving. I don’t want to
lose you.”
Her eyes were glazed over with fear, and her head jerked around as she studied our surroundings. It took me a moment to realize that she actually thought we were running.
“Kiana, look at me,” I said in a calm voice as I walked right in front of her.
“What are you doing? We have to run!”
“Look at me. We’re not running. You just think you are. This isn’t real, remember?”
The trees screeched to a halt, and she sucked in her breath. “Whoa. Trippy.”
“Very. Are you all right, love? You’ve got a hold of things?”
“Yeah, I think so. That was very strange. The wolf. That’s…”
“Yeah. Dear old dad. But he’s running as a wolf which means you’re probably running as a wolf too.” Cautiously, I walked around the area. Unlike the house, there were no clear boundaries of this
sector of her memory, but it had to have an end. A wall of some sort. Something to keep us trapped here.
“My mother isn’t a shifter. Which means she’s not…”
“She just ran!”
Kiana and I both jerked around at the sound of Ragor’s voice. He was human again and holding something invisible in his arms. “I’m telling you; they’re doing something to her. Andrea cries every time she comes back. We’re not going back, Katherine.”
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Chapter 117-1
Charm
He was quiet for a moment, and then his face relaxed. “It’s okay. Don’t cry. We’re going to figure it
out. We need someone who can help us. Another pack isn’t going to do it. They won’t accept me
while I’m bonded. We need witches, but ones that you trust. Really trust.”
“Katherine,” Kiana whispered. “That was her name. How is it that I couldn’t remember her? You know what, that’s not important now because she did this to me. We can’t wait for the darkness to take us again. We need to find our way out.”
The trees started moving again, and I sighed. It was going to make me motion sick. Already, my stomach was feeling a little queasy. Lunessa had said that there might be some side-effects, although she wasn’t all that specific about it. Since I wouldn’t be connected to my body anymore, I had to remember that they were just like phantom pains.
It didn’t feel phantom.
“We’re moving again. At least the damn house was stationary. Do you feel the urge to panic?”
“I do, but you’re kind of anchoring me somehow. As long as I’m holding your hand, I can remember that you are real and this is not. Tell me something tangible. Something that happened out there. Saul must have found a way to fix the mutation. Eloise too?”
“I’m fine. Everyone’s fine. Turns out that your blood was the key.” Focusing on her, I ignored the shifting scenery and caught her up on everything that had happened.
“Saul is so damn smart,” Kiana said with a smile. “I was worried about you.”
“Well, now we’re all worried about you. It’s always something.” The scenery stopped, and I shuddered. “Thank Goddess that’s over with. Wait, I know this place.”
Looking around, Kiana frowned. The reason that we knew it was because we were here recently. The vegetation looked a little different, and Ragor stepped awkwardly around certain plants, as if someone was giving him instructions.
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