Merikh tugs shut the large bay window's curtains, looking around outside as before he turns to look at me. Caspian has all the lights on in his immense office of silver colors and various shades of blue swirling along the walls like shimmering waves of the sea.
It even has a salty smell, one that reminds me of a fresh warm breeze kicking up sand as you walk along the beach. It's annoyingly comforting while I try to remain angry and disagreeable.
"How is Percy?" I ask, looking at the ground, playing with the fabric on the armchair from where I stand behind
1. it.
"He is healing now." Merikh says, but I still ignore his presence.
"Brent has removed the spells that ban the use of powers for your kind, so you can contact him through the mind link if you are worried." Caspian says. His voice is soft, like he is trying to please me, to win me over. It only
irritates me further.
-Perc? I call out to him through the mind link.
-Yes, Luna?-
-How are you feeling? Are you finally healing or do you at least have some relief and know what happened?—
My memory is foggy. But I have agreed to allow Brent to help me clear it once I am a little more healed.-
-Rest, okay? I need my shadow backup and in order-I tease and smile to myself.
-I've called for backup. Hayes is on his way with Penny-he tells me and I furrow my brows, finally sliding a glance at Merikh. I want to be mad at him for not telling me they are coming, but it's hard to reason with the logic that he hasn't been alone with me long enough to tell me anything.
-I will come visit you after this meeting- I tell him then I shut down the mind link, clearing my throat as I square my shoulders and push my hair over my shoulders.
No more cowering or hiding my emotions. And no more damn tears. I am a luna and I will get my answers and from there I will take my emotions back to my room and feel them without anyone else having to see it.
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Chapter 36
or sympathy or people thinking I am weak because I am experiencing or feeling things. I
Caspian, catching him off guard
seat.
was tired of waiting for her
when I hear her name. Those tears I swore I would hide away trying to creep up, but
with you, then?" I ask him
underwater world to rule and even with my royal blood, I can only remain out of the
my cheek
can do. If anything." He whispers. "Do you only have a wolf? Can you
people to her with songs." Merikh
ask,
"Yes."
leaning forward in his
couldn't carry a tune. That her singing
I whisper, my
with her song." Merikh says, sliding his
"I what?"
waters, you
shocked. The memory floods back to me when I was in the healing waters, letting the water calm me as I sang the song I remembered from my
he needed me, had to have me. My chest tightens as I stare at him, realizing that it
of knowing I had tricked him into coming to me. That what I remember as being the beginning of something big between us was something
he watches me with pride. "That is a special
and calling him home." I whisper, afraid to look at Merikh, even though I feel the pull to do so. It's
at him and then at Merikh hating the thought of him touching me right now, knowing that singing it will only draw him closer.
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