Wicked Power by Gladden DelSheree

Author:Gladden, DelSheree
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, fantasy, paranormal, young adult, science fiction, teen, wicked, godling, godlings, wicked power
Publisher: DelSheree Gladden

Chapter Fifteen: One Less Excuse

(Vanessa)

When Chris first ran into Ketchup and me, and mentioned isolation training, he made it sound so mysterious. Sitting in a completely black room in dead silence lost its mystery after about five minutes the first day. I’ve been doing this for two weeks now. Thankfully, Chris’ training wasn’t all blackness and silence, but I begin with thirty minutes of this every day.

I’m supposed to be clearing my mind and focusing on a single thought, but today all I can think about is Zander and what he did yesterday. I tried to get to him as soon as the fight ended, but David wouldn’t let me near him. He hauled my unconscious brother off to the infirmary to rest and placed guards by his door—which really pissed me off.

Later, when Zander trudged back to his room where I was waiting, all he could tell me was that he somehow used the pain he had stored up. That didn’t explain much. Over the last two weeks, we have both learned how to manage and make use of our hunger and the pain it craves. Trainers taught us how to store up the pain we feed on instead of letting our hunger gobble it up right away.

The idea behind it is that we can use the pain like we would stored energy. I guess it was something we kind of understood already, like when I would sneak into the boxing gym to vent the hunger and frustration that had built up. David and the trainers showed us how to take it to a new level. Storing pain as energy lets us heal ourselves faster if we need to, boost our strength or speed, and amp up any other talents. I’ve been very careful not to make use of that last technique at all.

Alongside the daily isolation and combat training sessions with David and Chris, I’ve also worked with Emma in the vet clinic to improve my control. It irritates me to admit that David chose my trainer and location well, but I know only human children would have been more effective than dropping me in the middle of a bunch of sick animals and telling me not to hurt them. Needless to say, my control has improved drastically.

So has my talent for feeling the source of the animals’ pain and diagnosing its cause. That, I’ve kept strictly between Ketchup and me, though. I haven’t even told Grandma what I can do, not that we’ve seen much of each other, and Zander hasn’t been around enough to talk to, either.

My thoughts trailing back to Zander gets my hackles up. He’s been a whole other problem the past two weeks. I don’t know what switched him into compliant zombie mode where David is involved, but he’s clearly up to something that’s going to get him into trouble. The nagging feeling that he is going to need me has turned into an obnoxious tapping on the top of my head. Sometimes, it’s hard to think of anything else.

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