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She shook her head. “I cannot penetrate your mind when you are awake. You are strong. You protect yourself.”
“But you tried?” I asked.
She nodded. I wasn’t surprised.
“I wanted to call out to you so that you would come and we could talk,” she replied. “But I couldn’t reach you. You were closed off to me.”
That was good to know. I did not want her to be searching my thoughts.
“I...”
I couldn’t finish that sentence. A sharp pain appeared on my side suddenly, making me bend in two. I groaned and twisted with the pain, though when I looked down, I had no idea what had caused it.
“What is it?” Amarra asked. Her tone had shifted. She was no longer calm and appeasing.
“I don’t know,” I whispered.
Although it took me a moment to notice it, the pain was gone. I looked within, using my healing powers, but could not see any harm done.
Just when I thought I had imagined it, another jolt shook me to the core. This time, it was my leg. I could swear it had to be broken, as I felt it twist and turn awkwardly, and a sharp pain settled on my foreleg, but when I looked down, once again, I saw that none of that was true.
“Something’s happening,” I said.
“Let me in your mind,” she said.
Her tone was authoritative.
“Why would I?” I asked.
“I can find out what’s happening,” she replied.
“I can too,” I said, pushing her tendrils away with a single flick of the mind.
Closing my eyes, I tried to focus. The pain in my leg was slowly going away, but I could sense now that it wasn’t actually mine.
It was a thought. A feeling someone else had, and somehow, I was feeling their pain.
I followed the trail without thinking.
This felt safe. Somehow, I knew they would not harm me.
I opened my eyes somewhere else. I was down in a ditch, and others had gathered up. They looked worried as they all hurried to help, but the ditch was too deep for them to climb down or for me to climb up with a broken leg.
I was in another’s mind.
Where are you? I asked her. I knew who she was. She did not attempt to hide herself from me at all.
I was about to reach you, she said. Just on the other side of that mountain.
She thought of that mountain. I recognized it even though I had only seen it from the other side. It was quite a bit of a distance away from our camp, to the East.
I’ll send someone, I told her. Wait there.
I pulled myself away from her and was back in the tent with Amarra.
But she was no longer on the bed.
Instead, she was up. The ties around her wrists were digging into her skin as she pulled them forcefully in an attempt to reach me. Her wrists were getting cut from the pressure, blood was dripping down.
