“What? Why did you do that, then? Why did you stay in there with me? Or even come in there with me, let us be together?”
“Doesn’t matter at this point. We already have a great mark against us, as in wolf protector to human, so I preferred we be totally honest. I should get a call soon, and I hope to plead my case. Their turmoil can only work in our favor.”
I shook my head even as my body did the same. I couldn’t stop the rush of power that surged through me. Heat rolled in my stomach and moved down all four limbs as if trying to escape me.
“Your magic grows already,” he explained. “So much so that you can feel it inside of you. I think it is us being together.”
Chapter Nine
“What do I do with this magic now?” I asked.
“Heck if I know,” he huffed out a laugh that ended in a snort. “You and I are not alike. You are a descendant of an actual sorcerer, and the wolf part may have been magic like mine in your line, but the magic part was in the bloodline you were born into. My magic was a cast spell, giving me only the ability to shift into a wolf and to feel the human I’m assigned to. Nothing special came from an ancestor. Only one of the Royals themselves would know. And, after all this time, even they may not know exactly what the potential is, but if anyone, they would know how to test it and to train you based on those tests.”
“I’m not sick,” I stated. “Tests?”
“I just meant that they could instruct you to try certain things, like beginner spells or something. I don’t know...maybe... and then they would know your potential. I wasn’t talking drawing blood or anything. Have a fear of needles, do we?”
“Not a fear, but who’s fond of them? My mind just went to those books where the government finds someone with special abilities and they poke and prod them, sometimes even dissect them to try to understand them. They spend the rest of their lives trapped in some stark white hospital-type prison with doctors in their faces every hour. Guess I read way too much.” I said as I calmed myself while I blushed a bit.
“I don’t think that is possible. I mean the reading thing, and hopefully the prison-slash-hospital thing. too,” he said with a slash of his hand at just the precise moment.
I couldn’t hold back my laugh, at not only his words and melodramatic movements, but the ridiculous look on his face that played seriousness, but showed the good-natured teasing of a boy who liked a girl.
“Don’t all parents harp on their kids to read more?” he added.
“I don’t know. My parents never had to,” I shrugged.
“Suppose not. So, what about this magic, because I feel it just churning inside of you, more powerful than anything I have ever felt inside me. Honestly, it’s a little terrifying, like you’re about to explode or something.”
“Welcome to my world. I do feel, at times, that if I don’t release it somehow, that it will release on its own, shoot from my fingers or from my eyes. I don’t know. I have no instinct to do anything with it. It’s tingling down my arms, though, heating the palms of my hands,” I explained as I looked down at my upturned palms. “Sometimes it gets so warm I think I know what women mean by a hot flash.”
For a second, I thought I could see it there. A glimmer of a shiny clear light seemed to not only hover over my palm, but surrounded my hand. Cocking my head to the side, I guessed that only I could see it, or that I’d imagined it, because Lex casually sat down on the bed beside me. I focused in hard on the power there, the warmth, the glimmer. Soon, to even my astonishment, light did form in my hand, first a twinkle that soon started to glow brighter and brighter. It didn’t shoot out or anything: it merely flowed in a circle, white, glittery, catching the light.
What remained inside me surged as my astonishment, wrapped in awe and choked by fear, grew. Not exactly fight or flight, but it felt the same. My heart raced and the light brightened. It shuddered when I took a deep breath, and I laughed, causing a brief spike in the intensity of the ball. Just my giggle shot lines of blue and red through it.
“Holy shit,” Lex exclaimed. “I’ve never seen anything like that.”
“Says the man who turns into a wolf. This is merely a light,” I said, and made a fist to see what would happen.