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“That sounds… really romantic,” I whispered. Amon looked at me, and I couldn’t read the expression on his face.
“It can be. It can also be seen by many as a trap, or a cage. If your life mate is abusive, or has more power than you, it is very difficult to escape them. My father always told my mother that she was his life mate, and she would never be free of him.” His eyes darkened. “I did not believe him, but she did, and that was enough to keep her from leaving.” I slid my hand into his and gave his fingers a squeeze.
“I am sorry that you had to live through that,” I said to him. He gave me a sad smile and brushed a strand of hair away from my face.
“She is at peace now,” he told me.
The crowd began to disperse, and Amon touched my chin gently.
“Shall we go home?” He asked. My heart sank, and I frowned. Home? My home was in Toronto, with Jeremy. I didn’t know how to respond.
“Amon, you know that after everything is done, I have to go back, right? I can’t leave Jeremy alone.” We stood in silence for a long moment before he finally nodded.
“Of course, Raven,” he said softly, giving me that same small, sad smile again.
“Let’s go back to Court. We still have a lot of work to do to prepare you for the Quickening.” He dropped my hand, and left me, I assumed, to go find our friends.
47
It was nice to have room to spread out to sleep. I woke up the next morning surrounded by the lush green silken sheets of my bed in the Court of Pride. I looked up at the soft tap on my door frame expecting to see Amon. I was surprised to see that it was Kasha.
“Hey, hey,” she said, smiling at me.
“Hey yourself,” I greeted her, sliding out from under the blankets and stretching. “Where’s Amon?” I asked, peering behind her to see if he was there.
“He went across The Veil to check in on Conrad and Meredith, now that we have the box, Amon wants to see if we can use The Lens to figure out how to open it to get to The Flute.
“Oh.” That made sense. I wished he had asked if I had wanted to come.
“Yeah! So, in the meantime, while he’s gone, I thought you and I could do some training. I heard you got a bit of stage fright when we were attacked by the K'aalpa-kah in the jungle.”
I blushed. Right. I had almost forgotten about that.
“Get ready and meet me in the training ring,” she chirped. I nodded, oddly excited to train with Kasha. I felt like it was going to be fun.
I got ready quickly then grabbed a muffin and a cup of coffee in the common room, before heading to meet Kasha in the ring. When I got there, I was surprised to see both Dossidian and Rycon waiting as well.
“There she is!” Dossidian greeted me jovially. I smiled and waved.
“What’s up guys? What are you all doing here?”
“We thought we would train too,” Dossidian said. “I’ve been wanting to have a go at the almighty Rhoan.” He joked, and Rycon rolled his eyes.
“Yeah, yeah. Put your money where your mouth is,” Rycon said as he sauntered up to the weapons rack. He grabbed what looked like a very long, very deadly whip. He cracked it a few times to test it out, before turning back to Dossidian.
“First or third blood?” He asked, smirking. Dossidian laughed, grabbing a whip for himself.
“Let’s start with first, I doubt you’ll be up for a second or third after I’m done with you.”
Kasha looked at me grinning, before rolling her eyes.
“Males,” she said, as they began to circle each other. “Let’s go over here, so we have space,” she led me to the other side of the ring. I could see the billowing smoke stream that always seemed to be erupting from Mount Frira in the distance and shuddered.
“Ok,” Kasha said, “Let’s get into some more advanced stuff. You have shadow walking and flying down. You can regulate the temperature around you, which is great. Now let's kick it up a notch.” She fell back into a loose fighting stance, facing out into the beautiful scenery around us.
Holding up her hand in the shape of a gun, she put her focus to the tips of her fingers, before releasing a white-hot blast of energy. She shot the burning white light through the air, and into the distance. She turned to me, grinning.
“Now you try,” she said, and I nodded. I let myself fall into a state of Eriene and held my hand out, the way Kasha had done.
