She can’t teleport just anywhere. She has to know where she is and where she’s going, otherwise she can get stuck.
Well that sounds…terrifying.
Yes. Evidently there was an incident with a mop closet once.
I almost snorted even though I didn’t know exactly what that meant.
“Okay,” Rafe said. “So let’s just say hypothetically, the Crusaderisn’t at his full potential.” He began to pace. “He doesn’t have a family Chain as far as we know…” He glanced at me, and Zephyr caught it.
“What’s that look for?”
We continued staring at each other for a moment, then Rafe breathed out harshly.
“Zephyr, we don’t want to upset either of you,” Rafe started slowly. “Skye, darling, youknowI don’t want to upset you.”
“But you’re going to,” she said. It was a statement, not a question.
“Wyatt? You’re already in the dog house, why don’t you go ahead and give us the run down.” Rafe said, though he didn’t smile like I expected.
Skye and Zephyr both looked to me, and I actually gulped. Alone, they were scary. Together? They were downright terrifying.
“This wouldn’t have something to do with how y’all were interrogating Levi the other week, would it?” Zephyr looked tired. He’d just healed dozens of people, maybe close to a hundred. Definitely more than me. Because he was better than me. Stronger than me. But the weariness in his gaze now had nothing to do with the people we’d healed, and everything to do with what I was about to reveal.
“You know where this is going,” I said.
“Where is it going?” Skye looked back and forth between the two of us, and Zephyr sighed in resignation.
“Skyes. Remember when you suggested to me that mom had lied about her Links?” Zephyr asked quietly.
Rafe cringed, then turned around, threading his hands through his hair and pulling.
So, it seemed Skye had her own suspicions. Enough that she went to her brother. We weren’t completely off base. I wasn’t so sure that was a good thing.
“Yeah,” Skye confirmed, her voice very soft and…small.
I didn’t like it.
Neither did Aiden, because he moved closer to her, though he didn’t reach out for her. I’d noticed this several times from them. I started making mental notes with things I noticed about Skye, and one was the she didn’t always like being comforted so publicly.
Zephyr didn’t continue, and Skye’s expression began to crumble as she looked to me.
“What is it?”
Some small, sick part of me was still excited by the fact that she was looking to me for information, even if it was awful and debilitating.
“You’ve seen the Crusader yourself,” I said slowly. “He thought you were your mom. Became visibly upset when he realized she’d passed.”
Skye’s eyes welled with tears, and Aiden moved in completely, his chest touching her back though he still didn’t move to hold her. Rafe looked like he was about to pull his hair out.
“He apparently shares the same affinities as you. Landon confirmed the rumors we’ve been hearing.” I went on.
“Landon didn’t mention the teleportation,” Skye whispered.
“Well, that’s good.” Zephyr said with a sigh. “So, Skye and I found paperwork when we were kids. Our mother had been registered under a different surname at one point, then changed it some time after Skye was born.”
“Wayra,” Rafe breathed. “I was…” he cleared his throat. “I was watching you that day, in the lecture. I saw how you reacted during the conversation and that’s why I decided to go question Shafer.”
“Wayra…that’s the guy that can move buildings?” Aiden asked. “I thought that was a rumor.”
