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“There,” I said. “That tug right there, when you get protective of Aern.” A flash of indignation crossed her features and I felt it again. “Yes. There.”
Without taking my eyes from her, I said, “Logan, that thing we’ve been working on, try it on Aern.”
Emily’s eyes flicked from me to the men, back. There was nothing we’d been working on, and I didn’t know if Logan could guess my intention, but he moved. And it was enough to make Emily believe.
It shifted again, the tiniest impression in her bonds. “There. I think I’ve got it.” I glanced at Logan, smiled.
Emily leaned forward to whisper, “That was mean,” and I laughed.
“Hush,” I said. “I need to concentrate.” I closed my eyes, feeling along the threads that had wavered, and then followed them, examining their connections and comparing them to my own. It didn’t make any sense, didn’t explain why Emily’s powers had only worked on the bond with Aern, why mine could already free the powers to heal for the others, the ability to shield on Wesley. “Wait,” I said. “Wait, wait, wait.”
I opened my eyes, staring at the lines crossing my wrists, wounds overlapping the tattoos. And I had it. The connections I needed weren’t threads, they were a network, a spider web of contacts that had been disrupted, the way they’d been disrupted in the others. Bound and severed. Disconnected.
“They did this to us,” I whispered.
“Who?” Emily asked.
“The shadows.Our kind.”
She gaped at me, unwilling to understand. “What are you talking about?”
“This isn’t natural, there’s something, some reason we were stopped … separated from our powers.”
She glanced at the men, both of us knowing they were different. The letter hadn’t fully explained, but the Seven Lines’ power had been taken long ago, stolen from their ancestors thousands of years back. Ours, ours had been robbed fromus. And no one would have the power to do that except a shadow. One of our kind.
Emily stared at me, gaze beseeching, begging for it not to have been our own mother.
I shook my head. “It doesn’t matter now. Morgan, that’s what matters now. We can do this, Emily. We have the key.”
