Ascension Seekers by Amy Proebstel

Author:Amy Proebstel [Proebstel, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cavaliers Publishing
Published: 2018-09-30T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

BEHN REPEATEDLY PRACTICED the crystal skills while sitting on his bed. He had been careful to shut the door for privacy. He promptly became engrossed in both lighting and extinguishing a candle he had taken from his mom’s collection. There was something very satisfying to see a flame appear where there had only been a smoking black wick moments before. He extinguished it again and relit it almost immediately.

He only had two more things to learn before he was going to talk to his sister about what he had discovered about their heritage. Juila had promised to teach him how to move an object the next day. For an instant, he wondered if he could try to do it on his own. Almost in the same thought he decided it would be better to be around someone trained before he attempted it. He was too ignorant in the matter to know what could possibly go wrong so he opted to continue lighting and extinguishing the candle.

He had been so engrossed in his task that he failed to hear his door open. Valentina watched for several seconds before she spoke. “What are you doing, Behn?”

Almost jumping out of his bed with fear, Behn sat up and looked at his sister with wide eyes. “I…I didn’t hear you come in,” he said lamely.

“I got that. What were you doing with the candle?”

Behn looked at the candle as though it would come up with an excuse for him and then he glanced back at Valentina. Here was his opportunity to tell Valentina everything. If he chose to lie now, it would jeopardize his credibility when he got around to telling her the truth later. He took a deep breath and said, “I think you should shut the door and sit down with me. I’ve found some things out about our mom and where we came from.”

Valentina’s eyebrows came down over her eyes as she scowled at him. She followed his instructions and shut the door, but she was slower to go over to sit down. Her mind was thinking furiously about how Behn could have found anything out. All he ever did was go to school and then spend the afternoons tutoring Juila.

What she had witnessed as she stood at his door had nothing to do with family discoveries. Valentina wondered if Behn were using a deflection technique so he would not have to answer what he had been doing with the candle.

She sat down on the bed facing Behn and crossed her arms. “This explanation had better be good, Behn.”

Behn faced his sister, but kept his gaze down on the comforter while he tried to figure out where to start. He really needed Val to believe him. It felt like he would only have one opportunity to convince her or else she would shut him out and never hear the truth. The fact that she really did not want to know about their mom since they had such a loving home with their adoptive family complicated it even further.

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