I had no idea what kind of information on the bond and being shadow kissed I could possibly find out today from Oksana and Mark. I hoped that whatever it was would help Lissa and me. I walked to their house silently. I had called this morning to let them know of our plans. "Do you think they can help Lissa and I?" I asked Dimitri out of the blue.

"I think so. They've been bonded for a long time. At the very least you will be able to talk to someone who has gone through the same things you have." I nodded my head. We both slipped into a comfortable silence for the rest of our walk. We soon came up to a beautiful sky blue colored house. Yellow tulips planted outside the front of it. I realized that Dimitri let me take the lead of things, after all, this was more for me than it was him. Oksana was the one to open the door, Mark standing right behind her.

"Rose, Dimitri, glad to see you two. Come on in." She opened the door wider and stepped back to let us inside.

"Thank you for inviting us over."

"Oh of course, you guys are always welcome." They led us into the living room where we sat on opposite couches. Oksana was quick to get talking. "So, Rose. What kind of things can Vasalisa do with spirit?"

"Well, obviously she can heal. But other that that there isn't much. She's much better than other moroi at compulsion and she's currently learning how to read auras and dream walk but she hasn't quite gotten the hang of it."

"Dream walking, I've never heard of that. Where did she learn of it?"

"We have a friend, he's a spirit user. He's teaching her about dream walking and reading auras and she's teaching him about healing."

"Wow, that's interesting."

"What about you? What can you do with spirit?"

"Well, I can heal, I can't dream walk or read auras, but I can go into people's minds when they are awake. That is if I have some sort of connection to them."

"How? How do you go into people's heads?"

"Would you like me to show you?" I looked over at Dimitri briefly before answering her.

"Yes." She stood up and so did I.

"We'll slip into your bond-mates head. You will go into her head, I'll then go into yours and therefor be in hers. This will allow you to communicate with her as if it were a two-way bond." I nodded my head and easily slip into Lissa's head. She was eating breakfast with our group of friends in the cafeteria. I still tried to focus on my own body a bit so I could hear what Oksana was saying to me.

"Okay, I'm in your head now. You can speak to her, just focus on her, her mind and the words you want to say. I slip fully into Lissa's head.

"Lissa…" She gasped. Everyone at the table turned to look at her in confusion.

"What's wrong?" Asked Christian. She didn't answer him.

"Rose?"

"Yeah, it's me Lis."

"Oh my god, how is this possible right now?"

"Well, it's a long story. I'll call you. Right now I'm getting help from another spirit user and I don't want them using to much energy."

"Okay, call soon please! This is amazing!" She looked at our group of friends. "Rose is talking to me."

"What do you mean?" Asked Adrian.

"I mean it's like when I talk to her through the bond, but now she's talking to me!"I slip back into my own body and look around. I'm standing with Oksana in front on me with Mark and Dimitri on the couches looking over at us with deep interest. Dimitri more so than Mark.

"Wow." Was all I could say.

"I can also do charms." I looked over at Dimitri. I knew that we were both thinking about the night of the lust charm that Victor put on my necklace.

"What kind of charms?"

"Healing. As well as changing your identity. I can make it so you look different to other people, at least to people who don't know you're wearing a charm. I charm Mark's ring to help with the darkness." She pointed to her partner's hand. That was great news. It meant that I could take Lissa's darkness and hopefully not completely flip out in rage.

"How do you charm something?"

"I can show you, do you have any silver?" I nodded and took off the nazar necklace that I got from my mother and handed it to her. She held in tight in both hands. "So, what I do is I focus on the kind of energy I want to go into it; which is healing, and I focus on what I want it to do; which is take away some of your darkness. Tell your friend its like when she goes to heal someone. But instead on a person it's a necklace." After a few moments of silence, she handed me back my necklace. The second in was on I felt better. It felt like a weight was lifted from my shoulders that I didn't even know I was carrying.

"Wow, I feel… fantastic. I didn't even know I had so much darkness until now. Thank you." She nodded her head, wearing a kind smile. I looked over at my boyfriend to see his lips turn upward, he was happy that this had worked out for me.

By the end of the day I felt much better. Not only from the charm, but from learning so much about spirit and being shadow kissed. After the charm Mark had talked to me about the ghosts. He warned me that whenever I was outside wards I should put up my mental barriers, just like when I try to block out Lissa. He let me know that the healing charm for the darkness starts to wear off after a couple of weeks. I should always keep it with me but only put it on when I started to feel darkness's side affects. If I did that then I would get a longer use from the charm. Once we left their house I called Lissa up right away. She picked up after the second ring. "Rose! Oh my god what happened earlier?" She was loud in my ear causing me to pull my phone away from me.

"I found a spirit user, she also has a bond mate. They've been bonded for quite some time now so they know much more than we do…" I went on to tell her everything that Oksana and Mark had just told me. By the end of our conversation I was sitting outside the front of the Belikov home. Dimitri had gone in when we got here; which was about twenty minutes ago. "I need to go Lissa. But remember, you need to slow down on the magic, for your sake and mine."

"Okay, I'll practice less. I miss you."

"I miss you too, I'll be back soon." I went inside to find Dimitri talking away with his family. I knew everyone enjoyed me in the house, hell his mother told me we were like family. Yet, I couldn't help but feel like I was intruding. I walked out to the backyard and sat alone on the bench. The cool spring air pushing around my hair. Yeva soon came and sat beside me.

"I should warn you…" I looked over at her in confusion. I didn't like the sound of what she was saying.

"Warn me about what?"

"About what's to come. You need to remember to always be on guard, but in the end, what happen will happen. Do not blame yourself." She quickly left me alone again. I had no idea what she meant by her words, but I knew that something bad was going to happen soon.

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