I take it and we make our way over to our new training grounds.
Chapter thirty-five
I Have To Do What Now?
Alaceandra
"Again, Alaceandra.”Baldar directs me as I try once more to make something appear or catch anything on fire.No dice.I groan in frustration. This training exercise has proved to be downright embarrassing. For one, I lack the ability to make anything appear. Two, there is the fact that the men are just staring at me as I fail time and time again.Why do they need to be here anyway? I cannot believe they have to watch thisafter our conversation in the kitchen this morning. I must look mighty attractive covered in sweat trying to make floaty lights appear. Not.I huff.
"Just how much have you done with your marked men?"Baldar's squeak startles me from my thoughts.
I mutter a reply. "Why does that matter?"
"Because it does."Baldar answers unhelpfully."Now answer the question."
"We've just kissed," I whisper, biting at my bottom lip.
"Oh,"Baldar gives me a bland look."That makes sense then."
"What makes sense then?"
"I thought you all would have progressed further in my absence. You will need to kiss one of them, Alaceandra. Looks like the bond needs an extra kick in the ass to get things running for now."He gestures towards the two men and I stare at him. "We do not have all day."He taps his foot, impatiently.
"Kiss one of them?" I stare at him incredulously.
"Correct."
"And you think this will trigger my powers?" I ask.
"Correct."
"Can we not do something else to trigger them?"
"Eventually, yes, but right now this is the fastest option."
"Fastest? Meaning that a slower optionisavailable?"
"What are you guys talking about?" Sorin asks.
"We are just going over how to trigger my powers for training."
"And that is making you blush?" The prince is smirking at me.
I breathe out harshly. "He wants me to kiss one of you." I try not to melt into the grass from embarrassment.
"Does he?" Sorin gives Baldar a curious look. "I guess that makes sense."
"Yeah, but-"
"Feeling shy?" I can hear the prince's smile in his voice and it grates at me.
I rub at my eyes. "Look we all have just decided this thing between all of us is something we are going to try. I do not want to fuck up something that is tenuous at best due to its newness. It is one thing to practice my powers through channeling with you both here and quite another to outright make out with one of you in front of the other without some sort of discussion first, especially because Sam does not even know of this rendezvous. Maybe we should wait on training until we can talk about all this a little more.”
A branch breaks somewhere in the trees. I whip my gaze in that direction as a voice echoes throughout the clearing. "You need to train, Parum Bellator." Sam steps out from the darkness. "Stop worrying about the implications."
I narrow my eyes. "Sam? How did you—" I process what he said. "Wait, do not tell me you are joining this whole nickname train too! What does that even mean? Also, how long have you been there?"Well, there goes that excuse, this is just my luck…
He smiles at me. "Not long."
