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"Ok, let's try it again," he cut me off I helped hi each other's hands with hard concentration I thought about offering to quit for the day, and suggest we try again to before and I couldn't argue with the life that suddenly gave his chocolate brown eyes spirit

With his fingers tightly intertwined with ain; the detero horessively defensive electricity into control and pushing hisfro into a y; I couldn't be blasting hiress

Sebastian's fingers bombilated with vibration and transferred electricity He squeezedhis hands under control Slowly, tirelessly, he extracted ic He worked miniscule amounts at a tiinally his, I fought desperately against ht of ic as a separate entity than me It didn't have what you would call emotions, but it did have connections and habits that dictated its behavior In the struggle to give Sebastian back his ic could be fro to it Inside ics and now restrained that connection with dangerous desire

My slow, relaxed breathing was getting harder to control I squeezed ainst every internal instinct I possessed Sebastian reclaier The ot for hiet easier for

I had to force ic back with every bit of electricity I lost I felt that I held the leash to a hundred enraged dogs that dragged me behind the their livelihood

Sweat started to appear onme of how much work this was I was thrilled in the success that Sebastian and I finally figured out But the discouraging factor re

I knew that tinified with the intense effort we both put forward, but even objectively, I kne and laborious how the process was I repressedto reured it out

Sebastian's strength increased; I could feel hiic with confidence I worried for a few moments that neither one of us would knohen he was finished, but I rested in the belief that ic would never let that happen

Finally, after a long, grueling process, Sebastian hit a turning point and a channel opened between us It must have been the halfway point because suddenly Sebastian was in control The rest of the ic took only seconds for him to drain When I opened rinned froer sunken and hollow, instead they sparkled with , he looked like himself and I was relieved

"Would you be ?" he asked playfully

"You can try," I laughed, releasing y cracked loudly like thunder, breaking us apart and sending Sebastian up into the air and far away from ic back, I didn't feel bad about his possible injuries

He jued back to e in hirin with him

"Eden, I cannot believe you did it!" he shouted, drawing the attention of the rest of the Resistance

"Thanks for the vote of confidence," I joked, sitting down on the porch again and recovering fro! I coot what it felt like to be nor up heavy objects andthem about in the air

Jericho sat down next to me, concern written obviously across his face "It worked, huh?" he asked, clearly not trusting Sebastian now that he was not weak and incapacitated

"Yes, it did I know exactly what to do noe get to Avalon," I s my head on his shoulder

"You see his tone

"I'll be Ok," Imy eyes I was tired, exhausted in fact, but I also felt better I had taken an entire y wasto do with him now? Should we restrain him?" Jericho asked I was happy someone didn't trust him I knew that my attachment to Sebastian was completely out of place and irrational, especially now that he possessedabout another prisoner exchange," I sat up and opened uilt was still thick froot Jericho didn't know the specifics

"That's a good idea," Jericho agreed "Who did you have in mind?"

"I suppose a prince should be worth soreeic-less Immortal's?"

Jericho's eyes lit up with revelation; he s a contest with Titus over who could lift the heaviest object, Sebastian with his th "Clever, Eden Very clever"

"We'll see if it works, I a the hard way that Lucan is not an idiot," I ood enough incentive," Jericho countered and I hoped he was right