Reality is all based on perception. How we chose to see the world, how we digest news, that's what shapes our reality. In this very specific moment of my life the reality was that I had unknowingly placed my heart in the mouth of a viper, it's fangs pressing on my heart's chambers as it pumped. Also in this very moment, one of those fangs had pressed into a chamber, probably the left ventricle, because her induced poison was spreading through me, my organs. Her poison was now coursing through the veins in my body, my reality has shifted and I don't seem to care.
Casting her a look that bore into the depths of her soul, I noticed the slight shift in her posture, the slight movement in her throat as she swallowed and the tiny beads of sweat that were now coating her temples. I conjured up a satisfied smirk sure to know that my power was just as effective as well. More like the power I'd channeled from her. I knew her power, the extent of it. How could such viscerally terrifying amount of power be contained in this one lady? More the reason why I am in the position I am in. Better because based on her reaction just now, I know she feels the same, she doesn't know it but she does.
"Psythelian." I say my voice a bare whisper. She smirks up at me. "Give the boy a prize he's not dumb after all." She shoots
"Don't patronize me just because I do what you do better." I drawl still keeping my eyes on her. This woman right here was far more dangerous than anyone I have ever met. And you being next to her makes you more dangerous than she is. Garth shoots into into my mind with a smirk.
"Nice try but I know being a kylte like you comes with repercussions." She starts as she walks slowly towards us. "Quick burn out, risk of madness if the power you're handling doesn't quickly adapt in your body....and the list goes on and on, I'd say you're a liability K. Riveka." she says staring into the eyes. She's a few inches shorter than me now that she's grown to 5'10. But she was damn intimidating still. "You say that as if you don't have any of your own" I shoot back at her. It took an immense amount of control to be what she was, and she was brilliant at it. "Anyway all that aside, Telena will be here.." I start a little hesitant to continue and burst her bubble.
She frowns a bit in confusion and two lines appear between her brows. God I hate being the one telling her this. "They are taking you Reika.....To Meridian, the board thinks that it's a bit dangerous for you to stay here, especially with half your memories at the moment." I finish and step back from her and exhale the breathe I'd been holding. Christ I hated the fact that she occupied so much space. In my mind, my freaking lungs too. But it didn't matter because in this moment I could see gears turning in her brain as she paced in her dining room.
"Well they can't force me to go." She starts.
"Why do you think Telena is coming? She's gonna be there for the mind work. To coerce you into coming." Garth states.
"Well how strong can she possibly be? She's just an arcanist, I'm one too relatively." she states looking at us worriedly. "Reid, if you channel her you'd be stronger...."
"I can't she always has her shields up, so I can't channel her. And she's not just an arcanist. She's the most powerful arcanist ever. She's on Meridian's board." My tone comes out defeated and I see it then, I see the hope leaving her eyes. I note how she clenches her hands into a fist and her jaws tighten as she continues pacing. A slight tremor is felt and she pauses for a moment and unclenches her fists.
Everything goes back to the way it was and we relax again. Well shit. Garth notes. Shit is right, She just shook the whole house from a small emotional inconvenience He says into my mind. Yes she did, and as much as that makes find her more attractive it makes me worry if the board is right. But then again she did spend nine months living as a normal human, she's a bit out of practice in the emotional control department.
"You bet your ass I am. I spent eleven months in total ignorance and I can't remember something as simple as emotional regulation. Shit." She panic. She certainly did not need the negativity that was spewing in her mind right now. I needed a solution. I moved closer to her, causing her to halt and give me a very mean look. She didn't scare me, but I knew she was scared. I channeled Garth's arcanism and blocked him out. You don't get to panic on me. I say into her mind and slowly as I stared into her eyes, I reached for her hand.
Something that seemed to happen frequently now. I shook off the creeping butterflies that invaded my stomach and focused on her. I knew she was telepathic so she heard me. Eleven freaking months Reid, I've lost eleven months of my life! I can't remember my freaking name and your people want to take me..... She screamed and broke down into my mind. Her hand that I was holding, was now holding mine in a death grip. And to make matters worse, I can't remember who I am at my core, no childhood memories, just me at the academy and my mage-hood training, I can't seem to remember anything else, what even happened for me to lose my memory in the first place. She continued and I felt the sharp pang of pain in my heart. Wholesome and overwhelming, shit, this was her pain. I had no reason to ever feel the amount of pain I am feeling and it wrecked my heart that she even felt this way.
If you don't want to go then you won't. Telena won't take you from me I wanted to add but I can't. Not in this moment when she was being vulnerable in my arms. I had never seen this side of her ever, not even when she thought she was a normal person. How? she asks and my idiotic brain didn't actually have an answer to that. Kal I blurted out. Where was I going with this? Shit. Your sister? she queries, just as confused as I am and it then hits me. Thank my lucky stars. Yes, she can shun abilities, if I bring her over she can shun Telena's powers and she won't do her mind work on you I say and feel her relax in my arms.
Good, we needed that. This was a solution, the board might kill me for it but we might find a solution for that as well. Later. "Garth call Ameira." I state in a bit of commanding tone as I stop channeling on his power.
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It's been an hour of waiting when we finally experience heavy tremors that have us laying flat on the ground and a green black portal appears in Reika's living room. Finally. Kal jumps out first landing on one foot and one knee and straight up pukes on the carpet. Yikes. Ameira lands a second later and closes the portal. "You can't shun me in the middle of the portal jump Kal." She states devastated.
"Tell me that when my insides are not threatening to make a glorious appearance on my Brother's friend's carpet." Kal shoots at her as she wipes her mouth. Kal then performs a simple hand motion that cleans up the mess. She then looks up at us and smiles.
"Hello brother." she says beaming.