Balancer's Soul (37 page)

“Yes, but eat slowly.” He
cautioned and she took the advice and ate. As she ate Connor
wondered what was going through her mind and suddenly a weird
sensation on his forehead gave a gentle tug. It felt like his mind
began reaching outside his skull as if it weren’t there blocking
the way anymore.
“… so very amazing. I
thought I wouldn’t be able to make him fit, but I did! Damn it
still hurts, but felt so good. Now we are together, forever… Mother
didn’t tell me how much energy was to be expended, but at least I
didn’t get a headache…”

“I’m glad.”

“You’re glad about what? Finally being
together with me?” She giggled innocently and she rubbed his
thigh.

“No silly. That you didn’t get a headache.”
And she went completely rigid.

“What did you say?” She turned slowly
with shocked eyes. She soon had the covers wrapped around her torso
and a handful of cereal clutched in one hand.

“You were the one who said
that ‘at least I didn’t get a headache.’.” Connor looked at her
confused. “You
were
the one to say it.”

Her eyes went wide as she
said seriously “No I didn’t. I
thought
it.” Her face began to turn
white.

“Really? Try thinking some
more.” He closed his eyes and had the same sensation on his
forehead.
“There is no way he could hear
my thoughts. It’s not possible for mates to read each other’s
mind!”
he opened his eyes to say “Well it
is possible, in our case.” Connor tilted his head curiously and
asked playfully “Princess, see if you’re able to read my mind
now?”

This was so strange for the both of
them.

She looked at him like he’d
lost his mind, which he might have. She closed her eyes and Connor
felt her reaching for his mind, but it was no longer uncomfortable.
Something had changed somewhere deep within him, but he felt
physically fine if not better.
“Sarah? Can
you hear me? If you can, I love you with all that I am!”

Her eyes shot open and he knew that
she heard his thoughts. “I love you with all that I am too.” Her
eyes started to water almost happily. He wondered if she had always
wanted to be in his mind. “How is this possible?” She
asked.

“I have no idea!” he became excited
from these new, manifesting gifts. “Let’s test it out real quick.
Let’s have a mental conversation together.” Connor smiled and she
did as well, but her eyes looked a little unsure. Sarah eventually
closed her eyes as he did.

“Connor, are you
there?”
Sarah started their first mental
conversation.

“Yes.”
He opened his eyes yet hers remained closed.
“How do you feel?”

“I do not have any idea how
this is possible. This is supposed to be unattainable for mates. We
are doing the impossible! I’ve never heard of mates ever being able
to speak in this manner.”

“You seem very
afraid.”
Connor could feel her fear in the
pit of his gut.

“I’m just so…confused, you
could say. Connor, putting aside that we can communicate
telepathically, you shouldn’t be able to read another’s mind
yet!”

“Why not? After you fused
our souls together, I became a male Balancer, right?”
She finally opened her emerald eyes,
slowly.

“Connor, that’s exactly my
point. You have only
recently
become a male Balancer. It’s only been a handful
of minutes.” She started speaking aloud and she shook her head. “It
takes at least a year for your body to evolve completely. Do you
remember when you asked about the differences between Balancers and
humans? I told you that it will take a year for your mind to
grow.”

“Of course I remember. And during the
course of the year I will slowly lose all of my hair from the neck
down.” She smacked his arm because he was playing around and not
taking her words seriously.

All of these new experiences were so
exciting that it made him uninhibited.

“I’m serious, Connor!” And she now
looked it too. Connor told her to go on and she did. “Connor, do
you feel like anything has changed within you?” Her eyes showed
love yet her expression revealed total confusion.

“Only a few things.” And that was the
truth.

“Explain then to me as clearly as you
can.”

Taking a deep breath he began to tell
her of his changes. “When I left you to get some food I had this
new feeling in the pit of my stomach. When I focused on it, I knew
exactly where you were, knew that you craved sugar and I even felt
your exhaustion as if it were my own.” Her expressions went from
confusion to astonishment to something in between.

“Connor, that feeling is known as The
Bond. You shouldn’t completely feel that for several more
years.”

“I have a question. Why and how did I
know you craved sugar?” He skipped to another subject and it
confused her for a few moments.

“We need fuel to use utilize our
abilities. We can never overeat, being a Balancer and all. Our
bodies absorb almost all of our food and turn it into straight
energy for our abilities. At least you will never get fat, no
matter how much you can possibly consume.”

“That’s a handy ability to have.” He
came back to her last statement with another question. “If I can
feel the Bond, can you feel the bond to me? Within yourself I
mean…”

“I don’t really know.” She looked lost
in her thoughts.

“Maybe I can help.” And she
asked “How?” Connor walked to his dresser and put on a pair of
shorts. He turned around to see her standing a few feet behind him,
covering her nakedness by the brown bed sheet. He taped his
temple.
“Sarah, are you listening to me in
here?”

“Yes, what are you up
to?”
Her green eyes searched
his.

“Close your eyes and focus
on the center of your stomach. It feels like a rope tugging at your
gut. I am going to go hide, when I say “Now!” I want you to follow
that pull in your stomach and search me out.”
She nodded and walked over to her dresser to put on a t-shirt
and shorts. Connor snuck out silently while her back was turned. He
left the inside of the house and heard her quiet and dazed thoughts
as she put on some clothes. The outside of their property had sunk
and completely immersed itself in darkness. Apparently their ritual
had taken over six blissful hours to complete. He found an ideal
location and hid on the other side of the stream, being completely
hidden by the rotating waterwheel. Another bonus was that the
sounds of the waterwheel covered any sounds he might make.
“Now!”
Connor knew that
she heard because he could now tell she started moving thanks to
the bond that connected them. She ran outside the front door and
walked around the water wheel.

“Found you, my knight.” Connor stood
up and gave her a hug. She looked up at him to ask “Connor, what if
I did something wrong when we…? How are we so different from any
Balancer couple I’ve ever met? What are we going to do?”

“Sarah, relax. I haven’t any ideas
because I am still so new to all of this. But there are some things
I would like to test.”

“What do you have in mind
my
mate
?” She
finally started calming down.

“First let’s go back inside the
house.” They came back inside and sat at the dinner table, looking
at each other. He asked “First things first. How do you speak into
another’s mind?”

“You mean pushing your thoughts out so
that another person can hear you?” He nodded. “The way I do it is
by focusing my eyes into theirs. I then think about listening to
what they are thinking. It’s more difficult to push your thoughts
into another unlike listening, but now that we’ve mated it feels
effortless…”

Connor looked into his
mate’s eyes and felt his mind enter hers. His mind now felt like he
was floating on the surface of a massive lake. He was both
physically inside his mind yet strangely corporeal outside. Then
when he touched her loving mind it felt as natural as
breathing.
“Sarah, can you hear
me?”

“Yes!”
She smiled weakly, but she wasn’t as worried as she has
been.

“Can you feel me in your
mind? Like how I had that ability before…”
Her eyes shut as she caught his train of thought.

“This is very odd. I have never felt anyone
in my mind before… this sensation is peculiar… Why am I able to
feel this now?”

“I think that when we became one, some of me
went into you.”

“I think that you are right. I have a
question? How were you able to keep any secrets in your head when
my parents went probing?”

“I pictured your eyes in my
mind. If I did that then maybe if you focus on something, I won’t
be able to read your mind. Try my method yourself.”
She opened her eyes and he still watched her.
Connor felt something change in her mind, a deep shift. Her
thoughts became a buzzing sound like a swarm of mosquitoes by your
ear. All he was able to see in her mind was a black X.

“Did you hear what I said?” He shook
his head and she said “I said that I have never felt so happy and
exhilarated in my life… Whatever happens I am glad we chose each
other.”

“I will never let anything happen.”
Connor vowed, stood up and walked around the table. He slipped his
hands under her legs and picked her up. She went willingly by
wrapping her arms around his neck, staring at him like in a
euphoric dream. He walked her into their room and gently sat her on
the bed.

“What are we doing back in here?” She
had a twinkle of mischief dancing in her eyes.

“We are not doing
that
again tonight. You
need to get some rest after this ordeal, we both do. I read your
mind and I know you’re sore. Plus I’m not convinced you’re able to
physically able to undertake another session. First, I will make us
some dinner.” She reached over and pulled down his head and his
lips were met by her passionate kiss.

When Connor returned with dinner,
Sarah sat on the bed with her legs crossed. “I have an idea. We
need to visit my parents early tomorrow morning.”

He sat the food in front of
her. Pushing out with his mind he said
“I
agree, maybe they might know something about what’s caused our
differences from the rest of our kind.”

She laughed
“You are right. It is
our
kind now isn’t it? Maybe they
might be able to help our predicament. Put our minds at
ease.”

Early the next morning they left the
house just as the first rays of the sun warmed the sky. As they
passed into the forest Sarah said “Connor, I feel really different
today.”

What seemed strange was that she
wasn’t the only one.

“As do I.” It was the truth. Connor
felt not only a new inner strength, but also felt lighter than
normal. “I feel good. Like I can run faster than ever
before.”

“Give it a try.” She edged
him on. Sarah crouched down into a racing position. She looked up
at him and mentally shouted
“GO!”
She took off at an unbelievable pace. She was
like a drag racer dropping his foot hard on the
accelerator.

Connor started to run after her when
he suddenly noticed everything in his field of vision in a new
light. He knew his legs were pumping far faster than should be
humanly possible, but this speed alone was nothing compared to the
new experience of perception. The shocking thing about the run came
from the scenery. Connor unbelievingly saw everything like it was
all captured on slow motion cameras. He effortlessly missed every
branch, leaf, rock and twig without so much as trying, during the
exciting run. Looking around as he ran, he noticed that everything
didn’t actually slow down. It was his mind and body that sped up to
a new state. He felt unbound. Free. Connor caught Sarah’s arm just
before she broke the tree line of her parent’s property.

Not feeling any fatigue whatsoever
from the exercise he calmly told her “Sarah, we have something new
to add to our list of oddities.”

“Like?” he released her arm as she
smiled.

“Did you notice how
fast
we just ran?” He
shifted his weight to the left foot.

“Not really why? I just felt like
running. It was positively exhilarating.”

“We just ran a fifteen
minute walk from our home to here in sixty five seconds.” He lean
down and thought in her mind
“Not only
that, but as I ran faster everything slowed down dramatically. I
think that my mind has gotten much faster and was able to process
more detailed information.”

As he heard her
contemplating back to her superhuman run, she looked back up into
his guarded eyes.
“I agree. It’s like we
are both evolving so to speak.”

They walked slowly with their hands
entwined up to Jack’s home.

They knocked on the door together.

A few minutes later Jillian opened the
door wearing a blood red silk robe. “What are you two doing here so
early?” She yawned and rubbed the back of her neck. Her eyes
shifted to Sarah while twinkling provocatively. “Did you two go
through with the ritual?”