Cassie's head is a mind field of confusion. There is one consciousness, one alert mind, but a shadow of another. Every memory Cassandra ever had in one thousand years, Cassie now had in her head. Every thought, every inspiration, every nightmare, every piece of knowledge
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He cried out as the chaos swept over him, and jerked back, but then forward and grasped her hands. And with a word, he shifted to Billy and then kissed her softly. From his body and mind comes calm, and order, and love.
Breathe, love, hold on to me, I am here...
His mind shone like a star, brilliant and of undoubtable direction and solidity.
He slips up against her and snuggles her close, leaning his ehad against hers. His head throbs and his body aches, but she is here and with him and love seems to absolutely shine through him.
I;m here, you're here, and we're here and I love you and yay and it is so good to see you and hold you close.
She doesn't fully understand what's happening to her and why she has all of this in her head, or for that matter why Billy is in her head, and from that there is some fear.
But Billy's there and it's been so long and she's missed him so much and little else seems to matter.
She relaxes a little and the low hum of love grows. I didn't know if I'd ever come back and then you weren't there and..I've missed you so much and..
He blinks, blushes, closes his eyes, then blinks again and opens them.
It takes his mind a few moments, then his eyes widen.
Quantum physics? Possibly the connection of my magic and these abilities of yours?
He 'points' again, this time at her own mind, at something bright, then at his, where magic coils bright as well. Then he kinda waves around, showing how their minds are sort of...joined all over.
There is a moment of fear, washed away by relief when he continues.
You were... hurt, bad, really... and I had to fix you... but in order to figure out how, I used the mindlink spell... somehow, something in you responded... and it got a lot more powerful than it was supposed to. On the one hand, you are alive and well... on the other, I think we may be mindlinked and mindjoined... a lot
Love flows to her, and a complete smile in his mind to hers.
Confusion begins to rise higher as Billy explains.
I..that's..I don't have any abilities. I did, but then Nirrti fixed me. Memory flashes of a floating chess piece, Janet flashing a light in her eye, the sensation of Cassie's body ratatiating heat and seizing, and Nirrti standing over her with the healing device flash through Cassie's mind. Nirrti was trying to make the perfect host and I was the last one..I wanted them to let it happen but Mom said it would kill me.. So I can't do any of it anymore. They stopped it.
The fact that it Has Happened doesn't seem to be chaning Cassie's opinion that it Can't Happen. Of course then again she hasn't fully realized what's going on.
What if they didnt? What if they tried, but all it did was push your abilities into latentcy? And al this time, they have been waiting for your to mature, waiting for the right triggers. Which finally happenned...
Thinking about her bgeing hurt and hiw he had seen her at first sends surges of pain into him, and he shudders, hugging her close, trying to shove down that fear and those flashes, and return to calm.
That doesn't make any sense.. It wouldn't help Nirrti for me to have abilities..and besides, no one else does. No one in my village did. Mom said my body couldn't handle it..that we weren't advanced enough. ..Or did Nirrti say that. Someone said that. That kind of fuzzes over..Cassie clinches her eyes shut at the images of her hurt at the hospital and cries out, holding her head, when his wave of pain is followed by images and partial memories from Cassandra
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He reaches to her and hugs her and sends warmth, blindly, instinctively, his magic reaches out to her, love, warmth and solidness rising. He pushes everything else away, everything save her and him him and her, cassie and billy and cassie and billy and nothing else but them abnd that is all...
His eyes go to her unerringly, not looking for her, knowing where she is.
He grins as he slowly moves and creeps toward her, then doesnt touch her but just thinks, softly.
I love you, Cassie...
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Breathe, love, hold on to me, I am here...
His mind shone like a star, brilliant and of undoubtable direction and solidity.
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She kisses him back and slowly uncurls. All of the rattling things settle back into its place.
You're here..
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I;m here, you're here, and we're here and I love you and yay and it is so good to see you and hold you close.
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But Billy's there and it's been so long and she's missed him so much and little else seems to matter.
She relaxes a little and the low hum of love grows.
I didn't know if I'd ever come back and then you weren't there and..I've missed you so much and..
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He snuggles her close.
Just breathe dear...
His mind wraps around hers, through hers, across hers, love and warmth and support there.
It will all be okay now. We are together and your mom and Sam are nearby and you are home again
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With Cassandra's recession and Billy's presence, Cassie begins to take deep breaths and relax further.
Home..
Home's with you.
..Mom and Sam?
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Yeah...We're in our rooms and they are in the rooms somewhere. Feel them?
He 'points' inside their minds to the presences that he can feel, somewhere nearby.
They were there when we cam through and... the whole weird thing happened. I assume they covered us up.
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They probably did..it sounds like something Mom would do. She's always mothering everyone..
AckIamnotwearingclothes
There's a clapping noise and Cassie is wearing pajamas and underwear.
She blinks several times.
I -wasn't- wearing any clothes?
What just happened??
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It takes his mind a few moments, then his eyes widen.
Quantum physics? Possibly the connection of my magic and these abilities of yours?
He 'points' again, this time at her own mind, at something bright, then at his, where magic coils bright as well. Then he kinda waves around, showing how their minds are sort of...joined all over.
There is a moment of fear, washed away by relief when he continues.
You were... hurt, bad, really... and I had to fix you... but in order to figure out how, I used the mindlink spell... somehow, something in you responded... and it got a lot more powerful than it was supposed to. On the one hand, you are alive and well... on the other, I think we may be mindlinked and mindjoined... a lot
Love flows to her, and a complete smile in his mind to hers.
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I..that's..I don't have any abilities. I did, but then Nirrti fixed me. Memory flashes of a floating chess piece, Janet flashing a light in her eye, the sensation of Cassie's body ratatiating heat and seizing, and Nirrti standing over her with the healing device flash through Cassie's mind. Nirrti was trying to make the perfect host and I was the last one..I wanted them to let it happen but Mom said it would kill me..
So I can't do any of it anymore. They stopped it.
The fact that it Has Happened doesn't seem to be chaning Cassie's opinion that it Can't Happen. Of course then again she hasn't fully realized what's going on.
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What if they didnt? What if they tried, but all it did was push your abilities into latentcy? And al this time, they have been waiting for your to mature, waiting for the right triggers. Which finally happenned...
Thinking about her bgeing hurt and hiw he had seen her at first sends surges of pain into him, and he shudders, hugging her close, trying to shove down that fear and those flashes, and return to calm.
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It wouldn't help Nirrti for me to have abilities..and besides, no one else does. No one in my village did. Mom said my body couldn't handle it..that we weren't advanced enough. ..Or did Nirrti say that. Someone said that. That kind of fuzzes over..Cassie clinches her eyes shut at the images of her hurt at the hospital and cries out, holding her head, when his wave of pain is followed by images and partial memories from Cassandra ( ... )
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Too many..
Too much..
Changing so fast..
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