Chapter 314 Ether Confessions

Ella

“I really must insist,” Leon says awkwardly, looking around at the packed guest bedroom, “that we…thin the crowd. Just a bit.”

“Well, I’m not leaving,” I say, stepping forward and bouncing Rafe in my arms as I look down at my sister laying on the bed. Cora is awkward and uncomfortable as she looks around at the collection of investigators, at Roger, at me, Rafe, and Sinclair, all standing around her. Leon sits primly squeezed into a chair at her side.

“Perhaps…the child?” Leon suggests and I sigh, realizing that he’s right. I turn to Sinclair, my eyes pleading. “Can you?” I ask. Sinclair blanches at me. “Ella – I have to be here to hear this ”

“Please,” I say, stepping towards him.” Maybe we can…like, is there a way to make a video feed? Or sound? So you can hear in another room?”

Leon’s eyebrows go up. “That would work,” he says, looking at Sinclair, who nods firmly, reaching out for Rafe.

“I owe you,” I whisper to him, standing on my toes to give him a kiss on the cheek and handing the baby to him. “I can’t leave her.”

“I understand,” Sinclair murmurs back, “I’ll send someone up with AV equipment in a few minutes.” He brushes my cheek with his thumb before signaling to the investigators to leave the room with him. I turn back to my sister and then blink when I see Roger still standing in the corner, his arms crossed.

“What are you still doing here?” I ask, surprised. Roger just stares at me for a moment, apparently appalled that I would ask. ” I’m the lead investigator on this, Ella!” he informs me, frustrated, throwing out an explanatory hand. “I need to be here! To ask questions! To guide the investigation!”

lead investigators were usually so pissy.” “Pissy!” Roger gasps, leaning forward to me, aghast. “Ella, I

says, holding up a hand towards him. “We need a calm environment for this to work, and your level of agitation

mouth open, shocked to have been put in his place so politely. “Yeah,” Cora

against the wall with his eyes closed, taking a deep breath and raising a hand to press the bridge of his nose between

me and beginning to set up a computer and a microphone on Cora’s far side. He works quickly while Roger composes himself and Leon prepares the ether shot. I sit down on the

and leans her head back on the pillow, nodding to me

hypnosis, but everyone’s journeys are a little different. I’m going to give you the shot, and then I’ll guide you back to your memories of that day. You’ll hear my voice, and then, when you’ve accessed your

I want?” Cora asks, looking anxiously up at the doctor. “If

stop whenever you’d like. And if you’d like to give permission to your sister as well, we can stop whenever she gives the

eagerly and looks at me for confirmation. I slowly bob my head,

Cora and Roger and me. Then let’s get this started,

flinch at all as Leon presses the needle to her arm, though I suppose that is normal, as she’s a doctor who gives injections

looked the same under Leon’s care. His eyes also on Cora, Roger comes and sits next to me on the bed, wanting to be closer to the action. I give him a warm little nudge of my shoulder, both in welcome and

says quietly after a

on her face. “Where are you?” he asks. “I’m at my apartment,” Cora replies, her voice

little. “And is this a happy place for you?”

heart warming to see her happiness. “I

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