The Alpha King And His Chosen Luna novel Chapter 205

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(Isla)

Clann

I woke to Caius watching me.

Not the way I sometimes woke to find him already up and moving. He was still beside me, propped up slightly, studying me with an expression I couldn’t read yet because I hadn’t been awake long enough.

“What?” I asked.

“Something happened last night,” he said.

I blinked. “What kind of something?”

He was quiet for a moment.

“You were floating,” he said.

I stared at him.

“In your sleep,” he said. “About a foot off the bed. Vaela was close to the surface. There was silver in your skin.”

I sat up slowly.

“You’re serious,” I said.

“Yes,” he said.

My gaze dropped to my hands. They looked the same as they always did. Nothing about them suggested that I’d apparently spent part of the night floating above the bed without knowing it.

“Did I come down on my own?” I asked.

“No,” he said. “I brought you back.”

My eyes fell to my hands again.

“Did anything else happen?” I asked.

“No,” he said. “Just that.”

Just that. As if floating a foot off the bed in the middle of the night while completely asleep was a minor detail.

I reached for Vaela.

She was there immediately, warm and settled, and I felt something in her that I hadn’t felt before. Not guilt exactly. Something closer to satisfaction.

‘You knew, I said.

‘Yes, she said.

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‘You didn’t stop.’

‘No, she said. ‘I didn’t want to.

‘Why?’

She was quiet for a moment.

‘Because I could,’ she said. ‘And I wanted to know how long.’ –

I sat with that for a moment.

“She did it on purpose,” I told Caius.

He met my eyes.

“I know.”

“You’re not surprised.”

“Not entirely,” he said. “Vaela has always known more than she lets on.”

My attention drifted to the ceiling.

‘How long?’ I asked her.

‘Long enough,’ she said.

‘That’s not an answer.

‘It’s the only one I have,’ she said. ‘I don’t measure time the way you do!

I turned back to Caius.

“Was it worrying?” I asked. “When you saw it.”

He thought about it before answering.

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“No,” he said. “It tells me we’ve been working with a fraction of what you’re capable of. That’s not worrying. It’s just information we didn’t have before.”

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I thought about the training sessions. The symbol in the dirt. The light spreading to my shoulders and stopping there. Two days of careful work and conscious practice. Meanwhile, Vaela had apparently been doing something completely different on her own in the middle of the night without breaking a sweat.

‘Can you do it again?’ I asked her.

‘Yes, she said without hesitation.

‘Could you do it while I’m awake?”

She was quiet for a moment.

‘I don’t know, she said. ‘Last night was easier.

My attention shifted back to Calus.

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The conscious mind is still the limiting factor, isn’t it?” I said. “When I’m awake I’m watching the gift, reacting to it. When I’m asleep none of that is happening.”

He nodded once.

“Yes. Exactly that.”

“So the training is teaching me to get out of my own way,” I said.

“And last night showed us what’s possible when you do,” he said.

I glanced toward the window. Morning had fully arrived.

“We need those journals,” I said.

“I know,” he said. “I’m going to the library after breakfast.”

“I’m coming with you,” I said.

He raised an eyebrow.

“You said after breakfast,” I said. “So we eat first. Then we go.”

Something moved through his expression that wasn’t quite a smile but was close.

“Then we eat first,” he said.

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I got up, found my clothes, and pulled them on. Vaela was warm inside me, settled and content in a way she hadn’t been yesterday.

‘You’re pleased with yourself,’ I said to her.

‘A little,’ she said.

I smiled and turned to Caius.

“Eat first,” he said.

“Then the library,” I said.

“Then the library,” he agreed.

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