Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 2016

Chapter 2016: Water Vapor [Bonus]

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Sylas held Cassarae's head in silence, his thoughts swirling.

He felt quite numb. Even now, he still couldn't feel the blade in his chest, his body layered in so many foaming pustules of cognitive dissonance that he couldn't really sense any of it at all.

He didn't quite feel enraged, he didn't know what to feel at all... other than a weight. Just an endless weight that covered his skies and compressed even the earth beneath his feet.

It was a weight he didn't know how to get rid of, one that was so subtle, and yet always there, and the more he focused on it, the heavier it seemed to become.

And that was when he realized something...

It wasn't going anywhere.

Sylas didn't know how he ended up in his bedroom. Was it even his bedroom at all? He wasn't sure. He didn't spend much time sleeping back on Earth so it would have been foreign to him regardless of how he looked at it.

He felt hands moving across his chest, the faint feeling of what must have been Cassarae cleaning his wound and patching him up prodding at the dense cloud that hung over him.

Soon, even that feeling faded and then he felt a new weight land atop him. This one was much softer, much more pleasing.

Sylas realized that this felt quite familiar to him. It was something he had experienced the last few days, a silent support that came from a woman who lay by his side without asking for or wanting for anything.

The difference was that while in the last few days it had been Nosphaleen, now it was Cassarae who curled around his body, her Will exuding a peace and demureness that simply hadn't been there before.

He could feel it.

Maybe before now, she had never truly felt secure by his side. She trusted him, and believed that he could accomplish anything he set his mind to, but that had never translated to the belief that he would do whatever it took to protect her.

And how could she have felt that way? She always thought that he was one more tweak, one more change of his mind, from abandoning her all over again just like he had before.

It might be the case that that feeling wasn't entirely gone even now. But what she had decided was that Sylas had sacrificed enough that she didn't want to punish him for a mistake he had made as a teenager anymore.

And so, she lay there, giving him her warmth and silently listening to the beat of his heart. She couldn't bring herself to smile, but she contradictorily felt more happy than she had maybe in her entire life.

Sylas had chosen her.

There was something about that that came with its own weight, almost as though a decision that Sylas Grimblade made was worth far more than its mass in gold.

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