Soul and Blade (Blood and Bone Series Book 3) by Tara Brown

Author:Tara Brown [Brown, Tara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-11-17T00:00:00+00:00

13. SLOW IT DOWN

The house has morphed into the one in the French countryside, the one I use as a trigger to help me leave the mind runs. It’s telling me it’s time to go. My favorite nun is there, sitting beside me. She covers my hand in hers, just as she did when I was a little girl. “We are not ashamed of you, Jane.” She says it so calmly.

It is one of my greatest fears, the nuns thinking less of me for the path I have chosen. “We know you have done the very best you could with the life you had.” She lifts her weathered face and smiles. “But now you know what you must do.” She turns into flower petals right before my eyes and blows off, out the open window. Yet the warmth where her hand touched mine lingers.

Little Rory sits next to me on the other side, stuffing in far too big a bite of mashed potatoes for such a small boy. “Just like my ma made them.”

A peaceful feeling sweeps over me as I lean his way, whispering, “If I go, will ya be okay?”

He looks confused. “Why in God’s name would ya want to go anywhere but here?”

The answer isn’t there straightaway so I pause, giving it a moment of thought. “I don’t belong here. This is yer place now. I spent my childhood here and now it’s time for me to go.”

“I don’t want ya to go. I like it when yer here.”

I glance about the room at all the other children and sisters. “But yer safest here. The big Rory can’t come here. He doesn’t like the light.”

His nose wrinkles. “He never comes to where I am, and when I try to go to him, he keeps me away. We never see each other. Not since he let the bad things in.”

I kiss his cheek. “Yer safe here.” I get up from the table and walk to the bathroom. It looks the same as it did in our townhouse when Rory and I were dating, if you could call it that, in the last run.

I drop to my knees and fish the grate off the heater vent. I slide the box with the four-leaf clover on it from the hole and stare at it.

There are so many things I don’t remember about my life before and the little glimpses only ever started coming when I did mind runs. No matter what terrible things occurred here in the minds of bad people, I learned more about myself inside the minds of others than I ever could have on my own. I can never begrudge the fact I came.

I lift the lid and whisper, “Tell me about the swans, the way the swans circle the stars and shoot across the sky.”

Everything turns black—not the response I expect. Yet inside Rory’s mind it never is.

Instead of swirling and the confusion that comes with leaving a mind, I sit in a darkness that echoes and yet is silent.

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