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When Tamsin had first decided to leave the clubhouse to "find her wings", she knew there was a place that she needed to be, but she couldn't have told anyone where it was. She didn't know herself. It was like having a word on the tip of your tongue, but you just can't vocalize it. She felt that pull since she had left Massimo's lair, when he kidnapped her. That's when her memories of Kenzi, Bo, and the rest of the Happy Sunshine Gang in her previous life started to come back to her, too.
She sat on the front porch after leaving Kenzi a note. She had to leave a note. It wasn't something she would have ever done before, but this lifetime was different. If she hadn't left it Kenzi would have freaked out when she realized she was gone. She sat there, racking her brain hoping to jog something concrete from her mind, instead of these random, confusing flashes.
The order that the memories returned after her rebirth was a fickle thing. It was usually random sensory triggers from the lives before. Sometimes it felt like deja'vu. Sometimes there wouldn't be any warning at all and then the memories would come.
But the one constant. The survival instincts and the Valkyrie combat training always came back first. Almost instantly. They were ingrained in every fiber of a Valkyrie's being. All of that time spent training, living off the land. Of course, it had to be that way. Ordinarily, a Valkyrie would be reborn in the middle of a battlefield where they had fallen. There was usually no one to look over them, to care for them. A lost babe in the woods is all they were. She winced at the many times she had come awake in that exact situation. The loneliness and fear, it was almost as painful as the death. Almost.
But then, a smile came across her face as she thought of how it was different this time, how Kenzi had been there. Kenzi and all her weird little quirks. How ironic that Bo had described Kenzi's importance to her, once. It made no sense to her at the time. But now, she knew exactly what she had meant. It hadn't even been that long since she had left the clubhouse and yet, she already missed her… and Bo.
Her smile faded, when that frustrated feeling washed over her. When her thoughts again went to Bo. When she finally shook thoughts of Bo off, her mind was blank. Then, it finally clicked. She knew where to start.
She had gone to her favorite spot in the woods and just stood there. Feeling the breeze against her skin and hair, hearing the rustle of the leaves, and the smells in the air. She closed her eyes as she rolled her shoulders and extended her wings, her face darkening.
Standing there in her true Valkyrie form, she suppressed every thought going through her mind, except that phantom idea that was drawing her forth. It was a process they had learned early on in their Valkyrie training in order to collect the souls that they were to take to Vahalla. She felt the distant familiarity of energy surging in the air around her, a rush through her body and when she felt air blow through her hair, she knew to open her eyes.
She looked around at the unfamiliar surroundings. She was still in the woods, but it was different than where she had been. The types of trees surrounding her were not the same and she could hear rushing water. It smelt different. But it felt familiar, comfortable even. She still had no idea why. Her memories where still only fragments, washing over her little by little.
As she walked around trying to get an idea of where to go next, her mind started to go to the day she and Bo had been walking through the woods, similar to these. They were tracking Kenzi, when that little bitch Inari had taken her. Just like every other time, in this life and the last, she had thought about that moment when she let Bo feed from her. Valkyries didn't just let Fae feed off of them, they weren't anyone's food. But that wasn't the exact moment that filled her mind as she walked. It was the shiver that was going through her body as she remembered the moment Bo's lips had brushed against hers. She had involuntarily closed her eyes at the sensation. Bo… then she almost tripped over a rock. As she was cursing at herself for, yet again, letting Bo distract her, she managed to grab a larger rock nearby to keep from falling completely. A sharp rock in the knee, that would have hurt, she thought to herself. But as she went to push herself off, she felt a surge of energy radiating from the point of contact with her hand. From that point on, she was on auto pilot as she wandered into the nearby cave.