Aura Awakened: Interstellar Fairy Tales Book 1 by Vivienne Hart

Author:Vivienne Hart [Hart, Vivienne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Incantation Ink
Published: 2021-04-07T18:30:00+00:00

5

AURA

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His body language is meant to be reassuring, I can tell that much, and I do feel a weird sense of calm coming from him. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work. He’s staring at me, explaining something, but the meaning is lost. All his words are garbled, clearly an alien language, and I can’t help the panic that tries to drown me. Communication has not been an issue up until now, so what’s going on?

“Why can’t I understand you? What’s happening?”

He’s still talking, but he holds up an index finger, telling me to wait a moment, and sure enough, the words eventually resolve themselves.

“We could understand each other before, because the Malifects have translators installed on all their ships. They need to be able to communicate with slaves from a thousand different worlds. I don’t have that technology here. However, my people have the ability to communicate…telepathically, I guess you could say, although that’s not precisely what it is. It has to do with pheromones. It’s how we’re communicating now. I’m speaking out loud, but the telepathic link is translating in your brain.”

He closes his mouth, but the explanation keeps coming, straight to my head. We no longer have the need for verbal speech.

I’m sorry. WHAT?

“How is that possible?” I ask. “I’m human and definitely not telepathic. Can your species just bestow the ability on anyone they choose?” In a way, it kinda makes sense. Plants on Earth have demonstrated the ability to communicate with each other through pheromones, in a way that’s similar, though much more basic, to what he’s describing. I knew he was a plant! But it doesn’t explain how I factor into that. It’s not like a random tree can casually let me know if it’s infected with Dutch elm disease.

It’s complicated, he says in my mind. I wouldn’t normally be able to do this with a non-Acacian. But you are an exception. And I should warn you, it’s only going to grow from here. At the moment, we can hear each other’s thoughts. If we try, we can feel each other’s emotions. Soon we won’t even have to try.

“Hold up,” I say out loud, unwilling to try the whole telepathy thing. “You can hear all my thoughts?”

No, not all. Just those you choose to send me. If you choose to send any.

All right, that’s a relief. “And what’s this about me being an exception? And feeling each other’s emotions? What the fuck, Fillian? You owe me so many explanations!”

He heaves a sigh and resumes speaking aloud. “It has to do with what’s called a star-bond among my people. It refers to the notion that some of us have one person with whom we are destined to share our lives. A connection that is written in the stars. It cannot be denied or altered. It is as much a fact of our existence as breathing or growing. It’s very rare; fewer than twenty percent of us even have a star-mate. And even then, not every Acacian is lucky enough to find theirs, but those who do describe it as a blissful experience.

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