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His consciousness sunk deeper into the pathway. The voice was Tehdra’s alone. The pathway seemed different from the link he had opened. He ferreted into her mind, tunneling through darkness, and the mire of rage and cruelty. He saw Tehdra’s mental battle against what permeated her being, the crack in her shield. Her essence and darkness intertwined as one, yet the emotions from the darkness seemed as if they fought to devour Tehdra’s.
The purity of her conviction rasped against his mind and reached out to the darkness. Hard, cold determination reeked in her voice along with fury. He felt her burying the wrath, not allowing its growth in her mind. Separating her rage from her beast.
We are one being. Soul, mind, essence. We share one body, never to be separated. I have accepted, will you accept?
Tehdra’s mind pierced through him with power. It was not directed at him. She spoke to her beast. The connection held Ajali, and he stared, mesmerized, as Tehdra fought with a presence that he could only see in flashes of brutal depictions. Massive wings, clawed feet, glowing red eyes, vicious fangs, and black contracting chakra.
Her mental fight for dominion appeared like a physical fight in his mind. In a blur, Tehdra slammed into wings, claws, swirls of blackness. She was held down and claws ripped her to shreds. Then, in a blink, she appeared naked once more with chakra roiling around her, the beast draped over her.
We will never be separated. My body will always be yours. Your chakra, is mine to call upon. You cannot be freed from my body. If you let me, I will use your powers as mine. I will summon a part of you to corporeal form. I will feed you. I will not bury you behind the walls of my mind. Give me access to all your powers. Will you accept?
The scream of madness slammed into Ajali’s mind, and he flinched away from the pathway. He sensed the brutal fight that Tehdra waged as the essence of darkness surged in unfettered blood thirstiness. Yet Tehdra’s voice still rasped on. Cold, determined, logical, free from anger and pain.
You cannot be in control of me. There is no way out of my body onto this plane. It is impossible. Bond with me. Willingly share your powers with me. We are one. We will always be united.
The insidious scrape against his mind had him waiting for its punch with bated breath. When it came, it drove him to his phantom knees. Never had he felt such blood thirstiness from a being. Tehdra’s cry of pain echoed along his mental walls, and he heard another psychic crack as more of the vileness dominated her mind. An eye opened inside his mind to peer at Ajali. A new kind of darkness permeated his mind. One filled with the most violent of emotions.
Mate…
Our mate.
The rasp of Tehdra’s throbbed with torment and resolve.
I will be free! Thundered with such power, the icy rage in Ajali stirred, lifting its head.
You fight in vain. Can you rend my body with the power of your chakra? Yes. Can you feel lies in my words, beast? You know all things negative. Can you feel deception in me? You are trapped in me for all time. I am bounded by your essence in me for all time. We are one. You want free reign to kill and destroy. To feed. Never can I allow you that control. It will mean sure death. Hunters will come for us, and we will not triumph. Bond with me!
Ajali understood her fight.
The furor that trembled inside of him had to be harnessed by his willpower. Even now it stirred, feeling the rage from her darkness and was attracted to it. It was not an essence that spoke to him, it was a rage without reason or thought, one of power that once tapped into, could slaughter hundreds. He had not mastered all the power of the Phoenyx as yet either, but he had mastered e
nough of them to use its chakra to be unrivaled in war. His stomach clenched in hard knots as he realized Tehdra did the same. He and the Phoenyx were one. Even if he hated its destructive powers, he could never be separated from it. It was his bloodline inheritance. Trapped in Tehdra’s mind Ajali felt a strange sort of kinship. She was not much different from him. They both had power buried inside that if they did not hone it, control it, they could cause destruction that could never be recovered from.
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The Darkage—Kingdom of darkness and shadows
Saieke gasped as Drac swung her into his arms, holding her so that she straddled him with her legs wrapped around his waist. She clung to his neck and she whispered furiously along their link.
Drac I can keep pace. What…?
Speech became impossible for Saieke as his darkness shifted, power surged under his skin as he lowered his psychic leash separating his mind from his beast and moved with a speed that had her pressing her face into his neck to breathe. Saieke brushed her mind against Drac searching, seeking an opening. He closed it against her probe, not allowing her in. Her heart thumped as he ran with the power of his beast towards Nuria, faster than she could comprehend.
He carried her even though she was fast. Since consuming his blood, her senses were heightened in every way, her bones denser, stronger. She could sense his anger despite closing her out of his mind, and it was chilling. She hated that it was directed at her.
“Drac,” she snapped into his neck, his speed made talking difficult.
He turned his head and obsidian gaze ensnared her.
Do not close our pathway. Why do you shut me out?
His jaw was a harsh line. You defied my orders to return to the Keep. You split my attention with your willful ways
She pressed an open mouth kiss to his pulse. It was my willful ways that had me mated to you and bedded in a few days. She said softly against his mind. I can be of aid my love. I am powerful.
Princess, if you are harmed because of your folly you will not sit for weeks as I will spank you. You are powerful yet I carry you because you cannot match my speed.
She chuckled. What are we referring to here? A light spanking? Because I would like that, she teased, secure he would never harm her.
