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“This is silver. I know you can heal from it, but I want to see if your mate can use my healing to heal you faster.” He says. Eli takes the knife and looks at me.
“Ready?” He asks. I nod. He slices his hand with the knife before opening his bloody palm to me. I reach my hand out and cover his.
“Push the yellow into his hand.” Ailduin instructs me. I focus, Maia helping me, and I watch as my hand glows a faint yellow and Eli’s hand heals. When I’m done. I’m exhausted. I feel like I’ve run a marathon after starving myself for weeks, and not sleeping for days. I’m sweating and I’m stagger forward. Ell immediately picks me up bridal style, looking at me concerned.
“What’s wrong with her?” He asks, holding me close.
“Doing this is difficult and she has exhausted herself. Can we get her something to eat and something sugary to drink?” He asks and Ell calls Cammy to bring me something.
“I’m okay, Ell. I just feel so tired.”
“Can’t you heal her?” Eli asks Ailduin.
“Yes and no. She’s not injured. She has exhausted herself. It would be better for her body to heal. itself and learn it’s limits.”
“While she rests, Cara, lets see if you can find my healing aura.”
“I can’t see the colors. When I pull on her power, I just feel the power coming through to me. I don’t do any of the blending thing that she talked about.” Cara says.
Ailduin looks at Angel. “Not a chance.” Liam says before Ailduin can even suggest Angel trying it.
Ailduin nods looking back at Cara. “Can you feel the difference between strength and healing?”
“I don’t know.” She says.
“Let’s try.” He says as Cammy brings out a tray of food and a soda for me.
We watch as Cara tries to find the difference between Ailduin’s strength and his healing power. We can see that she’s getting fatigued as well. Rik walks up behind her, lending her his support.
“I think I have it.” She says and she sounds like she’s panting with the effort. Ailduin pulls his hand away and her body sags. Rik scoops her up and brings her back to our little seating area.
“I think that is a good start for today. We can have dinner and rest. Tomorrow, I want to work on mind linking and if we have time and feel up to it, we can try again.” Ailduin says.
Cara eats a little and has a soda as well before we both start to feel better. When it’s time for dinner, we’re both feeling back to normal.
SONOISE
Dinner was a loud and chaotic affair. The sprites were back to their incessant back and forth chatter. I don’t know how Grace can have conversations with them and not get a headache, but my amazing mate takes on the roll of hostess and inserts herself in the conversations with the sprites. Angel and Cara seem to have the same ease interacting with the sprites. Liam on the other hand, makes me look like I have the patience of a saint. He has no tolerance for their chatter at all. Rik falls somewhere in between us and our mates.
I watch as Aolis dotes on Lily. She’s still too young to really give him attention, but he seems to enjoy making her laugh. “Is it weird that you already know who Lily’s mate is?” I ask Rik.
He looks over at Aolis, playing with his daughter. “Right now, it’s fine. As she gets older, I know it will be harder for me and I’ll have to set serious boundaries. Here I was, worried I’d have to fight with Liam about his son messing with my little girl. Instead, I get fae royalty that is ten years older than she is. I honestly don’t know which is worse.”
As the evening winds down, Grace makes sure that everyone is settled in their rooms. Ailduin and Aolis have been put in rooms on our floor. After making sure they also have everything they need, I pull my mate into the shower and make sure she knows exactly how amazing I think she is before I wrap myself around her in our bed and we fall to sleep.
The next morning, we wake early as Grace wants to make sure that everything is ready for breakfast. We haven’t been downstairs long when Ailduin comes in, looking a bit frazzled.
“Grace, has someone stayed in the room I’m in recently. There’s a scent…”
“Oh, Ailduin, I’m so sorry. We did have guests last week. I thought the room had been cleaned and aired properly, but I can make sure that it is cleaned again today.”
“NO!” He says sharply, before regulating his tone. “You misunderstand me. The scent, it’s intoxicating.” I watch as his eyes nearly roll back into his head. I look at Grace. I know that look. Everyone mated werewolf knows that look. That’s the look of someone that just smelled their mate.
Summer? Who stayed in the room that we put King Ailduin in?” I can see Grace’s eyes shining.
She thinks she knows who his mate is.
Summer walks in and thinks for a moment. “Let me see, I believe that was Alpha Anastasia.”
“Thank you, Summer.” Grace says, with a shrewd look I’ve seen before. She’s planning something.
“King Ailduin. Allow me to make a phone call. I don’t want to make any assumptions, but it’s possible that the person that was here last weekend could possibly make a trip to come this. weekend as well. I’ll find out and then, then we’ll see what happens. In the meantime, please have some breakfast.”
Grace leaves to make her call. While she is gone, the others join us for breakfast. They say hello to their previous pack mates that chose to move to our pack, catching up on the changes in their lives since they came to live here. When Grace joins us, she has a smile on her face.
“I let Cammy and Summer know that we’ll have a couple extra visitors this afternoon, staying the night.”
“I hope that this won’t lead to disappointment for them again.” I mind link her.
“He’s a king. In retrospect, she’s perfect for him. It just means that Alpha Christopher will have to figure something else out with his pack.” She mind links back.
After breakfast, we drop the babies off at the nursery and head back outside.
“Today, I want to try something different. We know that Grace and Ell have the ability to mind link. long distances, and that Grace can push her ability to Eli and have him mind link longer distances as well. So first, let’s see if Cara and Angel can pull from Grace and mind link back to your respective packs.”
It takes some time, but eventually Cara is able to mind link Lacey back at her pack. Next, Angel takes a turn with Liam hovering over her ready to swoop in if she looks tired.
“Liam, I’m pulling from her, she’s not pulling from me. I’m fine.” Angel tells him, but he doesn’t budge. She rolls her eyes and focuses on Grace. It takes her a bit longer, but eventually, she’s able to mind link back to her pack as well.
“Excellent. Next, I want to see if Cara can pull from Grace’s power and have Rik mind link his pack.”
This takes longer but eventually, Rik is able to mind link Chase back at his pack. Next, they try again with Angel and Liam. Again, it takes longer, but Liam is able to mind link. By the time they finish, it is time for lunch, and everyone looks like they could use a break.
At lunch we see a very happy Thomas and Tula. Tula has a mate mark on her neck. When I look at
Thomas, he pulls his shirt down to show me the glowing circle above his heart. The two of them look radiantly happy. Grace gives Tula a hug and she thanks Ailduin again for healing her.
In the alternoon, Ailduin wants to see if Grace, Cara and Angel can mind link each other. They all look at each other, frowning before turning back to him.
“Your bonds are different, more significant than they have ever been in the past. Two of your wolf spirits have been mated and one of your wolves is the daughter of the other two. In both of those. scenarios, wolves are able to mind link, correct?” Ailduin asks.
“Correct.” They all agree.