The Timeless One by Lexy Wolfe

Author:Lexy Wolfe [Wolfe, Lexy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BHC Press
Published: 2017-06-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Everyone looked up as Taylin came out of Storm and Ash's room, the healer quietly pensive. "She is sleeping, but I am not sure what else to say. I have never encountered anything like this in my life, nor have any others of my healing sect." Walking over to the couches surrounding the fire pit, she touched Jaison's brow. The Desanti Unsvet met her eyes and smiled weakly at her, raising his third glass of wine to her in mute gratitude. "The wounds were old and new at the same time. If I could not touch time, I would not have been able to close them."

Ash sat with Lyra and Terrence on either side of him, both worriedly studying him. Looking ragged, the older mage looked at Skyfire's profile. "She's going to be fine. I'm fine, Jaison's fine. Could you explain what happened now?" Running his hand through his hair, he observed quietly, "You had never seen that before."

Skyfire closed his eyes, shaking his head. "Not in Storm, no. In others... yes. There are many names for it. Memory bleed. Living nightmares. Relivings. Whatever their origins, the results are the same." Straightening, he pushed himself to his feet, walking towards the glass doors to stare outside, feeling the eyes of everyone on his back. "When... a Desanti suffers a terrible event in their life, sometimes they will relive that event, if something triggers remembering it. Storm relived the massacre of her tribe."

Tyrsan looked between Ash and Jaison. "But how could it affect them? And how can we prevent it from happening again?"

"They are affected because they share bayuli-volsha with her," Skyfire explained. "It is what ties the soul of one member of a tribe to another's, or in Ash's case, lifemate to lifemate, and all Desanti to the living land." Shaking his head, he said, "The only way other memory bleeds have been mended before was to heal the sufferer's mind of whatever afflicts them, or block the memories entirely. But not even the Totani have been able to mend this, and Kailee has told me they have tried since the massacre that made Storm a Cursed child." He pulled out several golden feathers from inside his vest. "Thandar was here. He kept her from succumbing to the memory bleed by resolving it as it had been then, with his presence. It was he who had rescued her before she, too, was murdered."

"Storm doesn't know how to live a normal life," Ash said in a low voice. "She lost everything she knew and everyone she loved during that massacre, and holding onto those memories is holding onto her family. Forgetting her tribe... Even as much of a risk to her leaving things as they are now, I would not ask that of her." He closed his eyes. "I would give anything to be able to remember my own family, even if it would risk my life like this."

Tyrsan frowned. "Wait. You said this bond thing ties Desanti to the living land.

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