Of Snow and Roses by T.M. Franklin

Author:T.M. Franklin [Franklin, T.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: T.M. Franklin
Published: 2020-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

From that moment on, Neve spent as much time as she could honing her skills. She’d practice hiding herself from large groups . . . hiding large groups from others.

Hiding people. Hiding things.

Honing in on the tether she’d felt in the basement. Exploring it . . . stretching it and reeling it in. Over the next week, she got to know her gift and soon it was responding almost instantaneously.

But that was only the beginning.

The evening after they’d found Tala, Neve had been sitting on her bed, practicing. There was no one to practice on really, but she reached out with her tether and found she could connect with different people, and even recognize them by their link. Calum’s felt tight, electric, but Angelica’s was looser and more elastic. She was pondering what that could mean when lightning flashed through her window, followed by the sharp crack of thunder. Neve got up and approached the window. She hadn’t noticed while she’d been concentrating, but the sky had grown dark with nearly black clouds roiling across the sky. She could feel the electricity in the air, static crackling across her skin.

Rain started to fall, a light pitter pat at first, but quickly building to a torrential downpour. It pounded on the gravel walk, bent the flowers under its unrelenting drive. Another flash of lightning made her jump, her hand flying to her mouth in surprise.

Then, she saw it. Colorful sparkles dancing across her fingertips.

In awe, Neve turned her hands over and back again, watching the sparks move along her skin. Now that she was paying attention, she noticed the electric warmth running up and down her arms. The lightning flashed again, and the sparks brightened, expanding for a second before returning to their earlier size.

“Weird,” she murmured, her gaze drifting from her hands to the sky and back again.

Could there－could there be a connection?

As if answering her question, the sky lit again with another bolt of lightning－closer this time－and the sparks brightened even more. An astonished laugh burst out of her and she closed her eyes, searching for that connection.

Could it be a tether like the one she used to hide things?

And just like that, a clarity hit her, as if her connection to the sparks had been hidden behind a curtain, waiting for her to pull it back. It was a tether, a connection she felt not only to the lightning, but to the rain and the wind as well.

She flexed her fingers, and a tiny bolt of lightning flew from one index finger to the other.

“No way,” she whispered, repeating the action.

Neve wanted to go outside, to truly test this newfound power, but a shriek outside her door had her running for the hallway. Nancy ran by her, screaming bloody murder, and soon the halls were full of patients.

“What’s going on?” she asked Peter as he raced past.

“Rats!” he shouted with a shudder. “The place is full of rats!”

Neve watched the patients run this way and that, then spotted

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