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I knew I was asleep. I wanted to try to take people into my dreams. This would be the perfect time to experiment.
I concentrated on Alex, feeling no kind of tug. I concentrated a bit harder. Before I knew it, I stood in the living room where Alex read a book. She looked up at me.
"I didn't even hear you come out of your room, Talya. I thought you were going to sleep," She smiled at me.
"I am asleep. Aren't you?"
"Nope. I was about to come check up on you. You look awake to me," She seemed confused. I was confused as well.
I walked over to my bedroom door and reached out to open it. My hand went right through the doorknob. "Can you help me?"
"Sure," She got up putting down her book and getting up.
"I can't open my door," I admitted.
"Why? Is it jammed or something?" She came over, twisted the doorknob, and pushed, nearly falling into my room. Getting up, she saw my bed. "Talya, What are you doing?"
"I think I…" I couldn't exactly put it into words. On my bed, I slept.
"It has to do with your abilities, doesn't it," She said, more of a statement than a question.
"I think so. I was trying to come to you through my dreams. It is something Adrian can do," I told her.
I felt as if my spirit was draining. This must be very energy consuming. "I have to go," I told Alex.
I concentrated on Adrian and Lissa now. I felt the tug this time and pulled them both into my garden at home.
Lissa was confused. "Natalya, did you just pull me—"She was cut off by Adrian
"And me," he said.
She ignored that he interrupted, "into your dream?" She looked a bit jealous that I was able to do this on my first, rather second, try.
"Yeah. That isn't all."
They looked at me, wanting me to continue.
"Alex wasn't asleep. I came to her. It was as if I was a ghost in a way. A ghost you could communicate with. Probably more like those hologram phones on Star Wars."
"Can you show me? I'll wake up now if I have to," Adrian said. It was strange how his attitude changed in dreams.
"It drains the hell out of me. I can barely hang on to you guys right now," I said. My power was decreasing at a quick rate now.
"Don't use to much spirit. It will begin to get you back."
"What?" That made no sense; Spirit never had an effect on me.
I woke up and looked over at the closest clock I could find from my bed. It was five p.m. I was still tired, most likely from how much of my ability I just used. I fell back asleep.
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I heard Alex walk into my room. She sat at my bedside. "Nat, if you are planning on waking up anytime soon, Lissa is in the living room."
I rolled over on my bed. "What time is it?" I looked up at her through squinted eyes.
"One o'clock," she stated.
I shot up, "What?"
"You've been asleep for eleven hours. That's a record!"
"Sorry. Tell her I will be out in ten minutes."
She left the room. I got up and looked into my mirror. My hair looked like I had been pulling on it; it was messy for once. I took out my brush and pulled it smoothly through my hair. Once that was done, I got dressed into a white blouse and black skinny jeans. I had five minutes to spare, but headed out my door anyway.
Lissa sat eagerly on the neglected recliner to the side of the couch. She bounced up once I stepped into the room.
"Good morning?" I said.
"Yeah, yeah. You have never been affected by your spirit use?" She said impatiently. "You must not use it much, because I have been seriously damaged by it before."
"I use it a lot, usually. What kind of effects does it have?"
"You can be dangerous to yourself. It's even worse on other people. You can't stop the rage. A whole bunch of bad things can happen," She spilled out, "I almost killed someone once. Well actually, Twice, but the second time was not really trying to kill the person, just making him believe he was being attacked by large, deadly spiders. But you! Nothing ever happened to you? No mood swings or strange behaviors at all?"
"No; not even when I had to use endless compulsion to get through a week at school. Never once has it affected me.
Lissa looked over at Alex. Alex shook her head.
"I'm going to go get Adrian. Be right back," She went out my door and into the one across from me.
A few minutes passed and she was finally able to bring him here.
"What's going on now?" He asked.
"Spirit. It has no effect on me," I was quick to say.
He looked at me like I was crazy. "How does it not affect you? That's impossible. It affects anyone touched by it; Users and ones that are Shadow kissed."
"Shadow kissed?" I asked. That was a new word for me.
"If someone dies and are brought back to life by us," Lissa said uncomfortably.
"They form a bond with the Spirit user. They can take away the insanity and can hear the user's thoughts and dreams and such," Adrian finished for her.
"But in return, they have spirits effects?" I asked.
Lissa looked really sad. She simply nodded.
"So let me get this straight. In all the times you've used spirit, nothing bad happened afterwards?" Adrian said putting his hands in front of him, fingers stretched out.
"No," I told him.
"No tempers?"
"No."
"Nightmares? Anger out of nowhere? Hatred towards anything?" He interrogated further.
"No."
"Anything?"
"No."
"Nothing."
"Seems to be."
"Strange."
"I guess so?"
Lissa spoke up, "Maybe it's another one of your abilities?" She asked trying to figure something out.
"Possibly. What if it's just all adding up? What if one day, I just break?" I began to get a bit scared.
"It would have already happened. By the sound of it, you use your magic more than us. Lissa may be right," Adrian's tone was full of thought with a hint of frustration.
"Why does everything come so easily to you?" Lissa finally yelled. I had never seen her angry before, although I only knew her a few days.
"I… don't know?" I was a bit surprised.
"You come here only knowing how to move things around. Now, not only can you walk into dreams, you can walk out of yours!" Her tone was sort of scaring me.
"Sorry?" I didn't exactly know what to say.
"Lissa, calm down," Adrian told her.
"Calm down? Of course it's easy for you to say! You can do more than I can! You learned how to heal things easily. All you ever do now is mope around how Rose left you! She never even liked you!" She flung her hands in the air.
That hit something. Adrian winced. He shook his head and walked away out the door. I could hear something break in his room only moments later.
"So, what are you going to do now? Find the cure to cancer? Oh yeah, that's right, you can't heal things. I'm sure all it would take for you to learn the skill is two seconds." Lissa said.
She was beginning to get a bit to out of control. This would be a good time to put compulsion into hand. "Lissa, I need for you to calm down a bit," I told her slowly, looking at her directly from where I sat.
She took a deep breath.
"Now sit down."
She sat.
"Tell me why this is bothering you so much."
"I'm sorry. I've been trying for months to figure out things beyond healing. I can create illusions with compulsion, but that was all. You were able to progress so fast, and nothing affects you. I just got a little jealous of it all. I really am sorry. And I know you just used compulsion on me," She added.
"Sorry," I apologized.
"It's okay. I would have found it necessary."
"Don't you have, at least, a guardian? You are the Dragomir Princess." It hit me that I never met their guardians. Usually I wouldn't ask questions, but it was to strange when someone so important had no guardians.
"I am just kept guarded by the guardians at the court. About two of them come to school with Adrian and me. Other than that, I have no official Guardians."
"That's different."
"Yeah. I was going to have one."
"Rose?" I assumed.
"She left though."
"I'm so sorry."
"It's okay, she'll be back one day," She smiled.
"Well, that's good I guess."
"Yep. Then she will be my guardian and my best friend again," She said. She wanted so badly to believe this. Maybe it was true.
"Where is the rest of your Family? Are you related to Jesse Zeklos?" Lissa asked after a long silence.
"I've heard of him. I think he is a second or third cousin. Something along those lines." I remember meeting him once. He tried hitting on me until he learned we were closely related.
"How closely are you related to Christian?"
"Who is that again?"
"My fiancé."
"Oh, um, I really do not know at all. Never heard of him until now."
"Where is your family?"
"My parents are dead. Never had siblings. I wish I did, but I don't," I told her. I hated answering questions, so I never really asked them much.
"Oh. My family's gone too. I guess that is pretty obvious though."
I heard something break in Adrian's room again.
"We should go check on him. I shouldn't have said that to him earlier," She seemed worried.
I got up and followed Lissa into his room. It was a mess in there. Trash and empty bottles along with God knows what was scattered across the floor. I saw a broken vase destroyed next to a side table. Adrian sat on his bed in his bedroom with his face in his hands.
"Adrian?" I was first to say.
He looked up at me, then Lissa. He put his face back in his hands. "What do you what," He mumbled.
"Adrian, I didn't mean it. You know I didn't," Lissa sat next to him.
"Sure, sure," he said, "Of course you didn't."
"Adrian."
"Huh?"
"She will come back."
"And?" He said with a 'your-point?' kind of tone.
"Adrian. Please."
I looked back and forth at them as they spoke. I backed up getting ready to leave, feeling somewhat uncomfortable there.
"Stay," They said in unison.
"Staying," I nodded.
"Do you know where she is?" Lissa asked Adrian.
"No. She won't tell me. She asked me to not pull her into my dreams."
"What if you learned the projection skill? Technically it isn't the same," I said.
"She wouldn't like that. I respect her wishes."
"Let's hope she will be home soon," Lissa tilted her head to the side.
There was another long silence.
"You two can go now. Go off and do whatever it is that girls do," Adrian said after awhile, waving his hand away.
"Okay. Bye then," Lissa walked out of the room.
"Bye." I walked out of the room following Lissa.
In the hall, she stopped me before I could walk into my room where Alex waited for me patiently.
"Wait! Nat, I want you to meet Christian."
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