“I think my powers are coming in. I just pictured the Tree, and I guess since I was touching you, we ended up here together,” I said as I released him to look around.
“Give me your hand, Synthia,” Adam said carefully. “It’s not safe out here; we need to go back to the babies.”
“I know,” I said watching as the Fairies worked with fire to thaw the Tree of Life. The lush glow that had once filled the massive rowan now did so from within the ice and frost that wrapped around it and drifted down over the roots. “I’m afraid, Adam,” I whispered.
“I know; I’m worried too,” he replied honestly as he pulled me in and hugged me tight. “We’ve been through a lot, but it’s just another hurdle and we will fix it,” he said assuring me.
I gave him my hand and he sifted us back to the nursery where Ryder stood glowering at us. “What the fuck?” he growled.
“Syn’s powers are coming in,” Adam said with a smirk on his lips. “She thinks it, and it happens.”
“Is that so?” Ryder asked as he lifted a dark brow.
“Yeah, remember the shower incident?” I asked rubbing the back of my neck. “Remember your shower and me on my knees?” I asked.
“Shit,” Adam said as he detangled our limbs. “Don’t need to know this stuff.”
“Totally PG…Mmm, on second thought, it was like R-rated. Anyway, I think I’m gaining some of my new powers, but I’m not sure how to stop them.”
“Pet,” Ryder growled. “It better have been nothing—”
“No, not the R rated crap, the PG part. I think I’m getting some of my powers, or something. I don’t know. Danu isn’t answering me and it’s not like I have a lot of people who know what the hell is going on with me!”
I moved to Ryder and placed my hand on his arm and a bed popped into my mind.
We landed with a thud on a bed, and I growled. “Dammit,” I said as I fought to sit up as his arms pulled me down.
He smiled wolfishly. “You thought of a bed when you touched me?”
“Not on purpose,” I whined.
“Can I help you?” Zahruk asked from the bathroom door where he stood with a towel wrapped around his lean hips and a lazy smile on his face. “You do have your own bed, brother.”
Feminine laughter echoed from the bathroom behind him. I blinked and wondered just who it was inside his bathroom. I knew he could clean himself with glamour, so whatever they’d been doing in there, it wasn’t showering. I narrowed my eyes on him and tried to recall if I’d ever actually seen him without weapons on.
“Mine’s about to be full, so I suggest you get going,” he growled and crossed his heavily tattooed arms over his chest.
“Ewww!” I grabbed Ryder’s hand. Making a mental note that I would have to be really specific in my thoughts going forward as I had never seen Zahruk’s quarters before and there were worse places I could have had us wind up at. I shook my head in disgust as I thought about Adam.
We fell on him.
“Fuck!” he shouted as Ryder sifted off of him and looked at me, tangled with Adam on the floor.