Forever in the Past and Forever in the Future

Chapter 18

I wait as patiently as I can for Lenora to finish giving Kas a hug.She finally lets her go and kisses her on the cheek.

"I mean it.No more scaring me," she wags her finger at Kas.

"I promise, Lenora.No more scaring you,"

Kas smiles back with a nod before turning to me.She takes her hand out of mine and brushes her fingers on the side of my face.

"All I want to do is pull you into my lap and hold you all night, Baby, but I need you to tell us about your vision before you forget.Can you do that?"

"Yeah b-but," she looks at me with watery eyes, "Can you tell me if James is okay? Was that real or part of my vision?"

"It was real, Kas.Don’t worry, he’ll recover.We can take you to the hospital wing to see him tomorrow.Okay?"

Lenora squeezes her hand in reassurance.

Kas nods, looking at her hands for a moment.She collects herself so she can concentrate.

When she’s ready, she takes a ragged breath and tells us about what she saw.

"I thinkI saw some of the people who kidnapped me.There was a woman that looked just like Lenora, but maybe she was a little older? Or something about her seemed old, even though she looked young.She knew my name.She called me Iokaste.There was also a woman with dreadlocks and red eyes.She mind linked me, but it wasn't a real mind link I could actually see her words in my mind."

Kas squeezes her eyes closed for a minute, then opens her eyes and looks at the nightstand.She grabs her journal and pen and scribbles something down on a page.

‘Eisai dynatés.Empistéfsou ta énstikta sou"

"That’s what I saw," Lenora and I trade a confused look.

Kas has never remembered this much detail from a vision before, and this message in a foreign language is pretty specific.She only knows the little bit of Spanish that Marco has taught her.

"Looks like Greek.I will see if Musu can translate it,"

Lenora takes a picture of the page with her phone and sends it to Musu.

crosses Kas's face, "but I-I'm pretty sure it was the past.Not the future, like it usually is.It seems like it was a past life, but not one I already knew about.I was fighting alongside the woman with red eyes in an intense war.We knew each other, and she sacrificed herself for me, Bronx.She threw herself at charging

looks like if she tries to finish, it might make

hand over her sternum while she talks.Her eyes aren't really fixed on any one

ask as gently as possible, but in reality, I’m feeling a tinge of jealousy that Kas

if it was in a

something connected our essences to each other," her voice is soft, "She said something else in that language,

did

she died, it hurt so bad.It made me have this huge burst of energy come out of my body.I felt like a bomb was exploding out of me.And when I looked around, everything was...well, it was

looks me in

are

together long enough to tell us about her vision, but now she needs my support.I pull her into my lap

fold my arms around her, she begins to

her sobs, she says she didn’t mean to hurt James.She doesn’t want

We all know that.

can figure out how it happened

the Kas who has become stronger

the Luna and leader that everyone loves

now, she is a scared nineteen- year-old girl, who grew up not being able to trust anyone around her.She was lonely, scared, and trying to

deep dark part of her we all wish never existed.I know it will never go away

a part of who she is, but if there is anything I can do to keep it at bay,

like this? I don’t know and I don't even want to think

hear Lenora's

down at it and

"Is that Musu?"

with a knit brow as she looks at me rocking

shoulders,

kissing the top of her

need me, just send a mind link.I'll be back in

and watch her leave.I turn my attention back to Kas, thinking about

as I do.I just have to figure out who

calmed down, she pulls away from me slightly and gives me

"What's wrong, Baby?"