Chapter 342 - Duality (1/2)
Chapter 342 - Duality
TESSIA ERALITH
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No, not the Earth, not any fact at least a hundred times, I have yet to come to terms with it Who could have known there were other worlds out there? And that you could be…reborn into one New episodes will be published on lightnove lpu bco ht These arms were more slender than those I’d had before…
Before what?
I closeduntil I saw stars before opening theain
It had been worse—much worse—the first time I had seen the thin ar over nized him, of course His alien eyes had stared into mine from beneath his new, dark brows I had i out…
In the distance, a winged creature the size of an airplane heeling around one of the peaks, hunting What had Nico called the creature?
Alowing runes that nificent s and dove, vanishi+ng in the dips and valleys I wished I could join it, flying through the ic I’d inherited with this body
Of all the a was definitely h, made me think of th of our ene to do with the cold, raising gooseflesh along my arms
We hadn’t expected an attack…I had barely knoas going on still, only that ave Nico and me another chance at life—needed my help I simply repeated what they told ht dizzily I’d never done that before
Turning suddenly, I whisked back into ainst the cold and the alien landscape A twisting sense of vertigo threatened to overwhel fireplace, rubbing the bridge of ainst the nausea
An unwantedacross the school caan to ache and tre across me like waves over a stor on the floor,within a cocoon of dark, spear-tipped vines, the angry presence hidden withinwith hatred and confusion…
Shaking s up tomy arms around them
Breathe, just breathe, Cecilia
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A knock at the doorfrom the chair, I stared at the back of the door “Yes?” I asked after a few seconds
“Cecilia, it’s Nico Can I co in shades of orange and yellow, and took a deep breath to push back the lingering dizziness “Yes, of course”
The heavy wooden door swung sure a head taller than me, with alabaster skin and jet-black hair He stepped inside and let the door close softly before crossing the room to sit stiffly on my bed
Nico looked so different, and not just his physical features Whatever had happened to him in this new life had been hard on him It had made hihtnovelpubco?” he asked, his piercing eyes burning intoto see
“Fine,” I replied, too quickly
Liar
“I had an attack of vertigo, just now,” I admitted “But I’ beside me in an instant When his hand ca inside of me recoiled
“Sorry,” I whispered, but I didn’t put my hand back
“No, Cecilia, it’s okay It’s fine, really” The obvious hurt this caused him shone back at me from those unfamiliar eyes, but he took his hand off the ar”
Confusing doesn’t begin to cover it
“Do the exercise,” Nico suggested
Nodding, I closed low of the fire playing across the inside ofdeeply, h s, where I held it
As I breathed out, s, on the way my sternum shi+fted asan intricate interplay of the ans There, I searched forto feel it, to be consciously aware of it
It took a minute, but eventually I found it near my solar plexus Once I had it in my mind, it felt i for y contained within Sort of like my ki center, but…more
The htnovelpubco else there, too
Within the core, I could sense another will, separate froled, uardian’s beast will…
My eyes snapped open as I was shunted out of the aveme closely
“Better?” he asked when I opened my eyes
I only nodded in response
“Anyway” Nico stood and took a hesitant step back “Agrona would like us to join him for dinner in an hour, in his private rooet dressed?”
I shook unmetal hair behind my ear “No, I’ll…see you there”
With a nod, Nico fumbled behind him for the door handle, then backed out into the hallway, not taking his eyes offdeeply—so often in my past life, but felt the need to do frequently now—I sank down into the chair and h to be uncomfortable
Like the cold, the sensation of the too-war at my bare toeswhat Nico had said about dinner, I juh a door on the other side ofroom Inside, there was a desk with drawers full of perfumes and makeup, several mirrors, three dressers for different types of clothes, and a closet that ran the length of the roouiltily, rin Caelum
I’d never had my own stuff before, not really Or at least, I didn’t think so So h Nico and Agrona assured me that it would all coe, and Head away froh the clothes hanging inside the closet It contained e robes of a hundred different colors and designs, and all just for ertips brushed a si the back that I thought would th green dress with golden leaves eed, I prepared hts and preparing answers to the bombardment of questions I knew I’d receive