Becoming by Raine Thomas

Author:Raine Thomas [Thomas, Raine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, Young Adult
ISBN: 9780983831839
Google: ht7NygAACAAJ
Amazon: 0983831831
Publisher: Iambe Books
Published: 2011-10-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

The plane was in the air by 2:30. It seemed impossible to Amber that this was still the same day that had begun that morning with Gabriel fixing her French toast.

He sat beside her now in the last row of the small plane. Olivia and Skye were seated beside each other across the aisle from them, their heads bent together in conversation. Ini-herit sat in the front row by himself, by all appearances completely unmoving.

“How’re you holding up?” Gabriel asked her quietly once the pilot announced that they had reached their cruising altitude. He had lifted the arm rest between their seats and was now holding her left hand between both of his on top of his right thigh.

Turning from the window and catching his serious gaze, she answered, “Like Alice after she went through the looking glass.”

That provoked a small smile, which had been her goal. “I keep wondering how the hell we got here,” he admitted. “It’s like some crazy dream.”

“I know.” She frowned, thinking of The Dream. “The shock and numbness are wearing off now. Reality’s starting to set in. I mean, holy crap!”

“Are you wondering like I am why we were so easily convinced about all this?”

Giving that some thought, she shook her head. “Actually, I think we’ve both known for a long time that I’m unusual.” She gave herself a moment to enjoy his quick, playful grin. Then she added, “I’ll admit that finding out you’re a bit of a freak, too, was quite a shocker.”

His expression sobered. “Yeah.”

Keeping her voice low and studying the back of Ini-herit’s head as though he could hear her, she asked, “Why do you think Ini-herit’s Wymzestis—or Orculestis, or whatever they’re called—lost the ability to connect with your mind this morning? And yes, I know that is one of the strangest questions to ever leave my mouth.”

He managed another smile and then shook his head. “I wish I knew. That’s right around the time that we exchanged the rings, but how something like that could affect a being from a whole other plane…it completely defeats me.”

She knew she had to let it go. Neither of them had a clue what they were getting into, so they had no chance of gaining an answer to this particular puzzle. She tipped her head to the left and settled it on his shoulder.

Sighing, she whispered, “I’m scared.”

“I know,” he said. He kissed the top of her head and held her hand more tightly. “I am, too.”

Ini-herit had told them that the Estilorians had no real way of knowing how the transition between the planes would affect any of them, particularly their minds. The chances were favorable for the girls that they would end up on the Estilorian plane with their human personality traits and memories fully intact, as this was the only existence they had ever known. But a small chance did exist that they would enter their Estilorian forms and have only the memories they retained from that plane. Meaning, they would have the minds of newborn infants.

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