The Complete Enochian War Trilogy Box Set by Luke Mitchell

Author:Luke Mitchell [Mitchell, Luke]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-25T22:00:00+00:00

24

Arrested

We didn’t get back to work that morning.

We laid in bed and held each other close. We talked and laughed and reveled in one another. We made love like it was the first night all over again, clinging desperately to one another as if gravity had inverted and we were the only thing keeping one another from falling away to empty sky.

For a few wonderful hours, we let ourselves be teenagers again—together and in love and just… happy. Plain and simple. No cares in the world.

I’m pretty sure it was the best day of my life.

Which almost softened the blow of coming back down from the clouds to remember that I was still on house arrest. Almost.

But that was okay too. Because I had work to do.

Yes, there was still a wild horde of hybrids pillaging Enochia’s population. And yes, Glenbark and the Legion were depending on me for a solution to the telepath problem. But for the first time since the White Tower, I felt like I truly had Elise back—like I truly had myself back.

Lying in bed that morning with the exquisite comfort of her naked body pressed to mine, there wasn’t a single obstacle on Enochia that felt insurmountable.

My confidence threatened to waver somewhat when we finally called an end to our tryst to get back to work and I remembered that I didn’t have the faintest clue what came next in the grand plan—or lack thereof—of Project Mindsafe. For starters, I practiced my mental island technique to reacclimate to the cloaking technique I planned to eventually use on these runes. Once Elise confirmed it was working, I had her start practicing the technique while I turned to the runes and back to the starter task of trying to imbue one with the simple function of pulling thermal energy from the air.

I won’t claim it was fun work, but it was kind of impressive how quickly the time passed when I was toying with runes and new techniques. Maybe it was a product of the countless hours I’d spent sitting on Carlisle’s practice mat, determined to hone my abilities into fighting shape as quickly as humanly possible. Maybe it was just the pressure of Enochia riding on the line. Whatever it was, the work possessed me.

After finally achieving limited success with a few heat sinks, I turned to the more abstract task of trying to imbue a rune with my mental island effect, but that only ended in a long string of failures with a frustrating lack of understanding as to what aspect was off. Was I simply failing to effectively cast the cloaking effect onto the rune? Or was it the rune itself that was incorrect—incapable of holding the desired effect? Or was it something else completely?

There was no way to know.

Elise, having found little success with her own practice at the mental island technique, broke from her meditation to posit that—even if I was successfully expressing the cloaking field effect onto the rune—there was no reason the rune should work in isolation.

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