Page 37 of Thrust into the Light

I look at my soulmate with brown eyes. “Xander.”

Then I look at my orange-eyed soulmate. His name sounds harder, and I try to say it in my head right, but Connor is here. He’ll help me if I say it wrong. “Vachoo” doesn’t sound like what Connor says. I don’t like not being able to get my mouth to say the words right. Xander grabs my chin and makes me look up at them. He looks back at Connor and back at me. “Try it this way scary lady, va-shoe, think like the shoes you wear.” I try again “Vashu.” That sounded right.

Connor gives me a big smile. Vashu and Xander look at each other than look back at Connor and I see they can do the eyebrow raise thing. Why can everyone else do it? I can make my face do it when I push them up with my fingers, but I can’t get them to do it when I try to make the muscles move on their own.

Rhi comes out of the kitchen with bacon! I walk over to the big table and sit down. He also has a yellow thing on the plate with it. He is just looking at Xander and Vashu.

“Connor, why don’t you take Farlen back to her room so she can eat, and I will talk with these two? Enjoy your omelet and bacon gorgeous. I will see you in a few minutes. Maybe have Connor show you some more music?”

I nod at him and smile. I like music and would like to hear more of it. Connor comes over, grabs my plate, and then walks with me to my bedroom. He sits my plate down on the small table where he keeps the book he reads to me. I sit down in the chair he sits in to read and eat my bacon. Connor pulls out his phone and starts playing some more music. This one soundsa lot different from the others they have played for me. I eat and listen to the music. I think I hear Rhi talking to Vashu and Xander occasionally, but I can’t hear what they are saying.

I try a bite of the omelet that Rhi made. It has egg and cheese in it. I try another bite, and bacon! Another song comes on and I close my eyes and chew my food. There’s another knock, far away, and Connor goes to my door and looks out it. He comes back over and stops his music. He grabs my plate. “Come on, I think Instructor Payne is here to talk with us for a little, but you have to eat while he talks, so you’re not late for class.” I follow him as he takes my bacon and bacon egg cheese thing. I need to ask Rhi what it was again because it was good.

Connor sets my plate down at the big table again. Rhi, Vashu and Xander are all sitting around the table. Vashu and Xander look at me funny, but Rhi just smiles at me. Instructor Payne comes over and sits down.

“Alright, so to give you a brief rundown on what happened yesterday. Farlens beast is the most dominant at the school right now, even more dominant than mine, and could withstand my alpha command when some students decided to try to get close to her. She then gave everyone an alpha command to submit, and everyone, including myself, were forced to follow her command. She released me from the hold right after my submission, and I helped her to release everyone else. I got everyone started on a partial shift, but I wanted Farlen to go meditate, in part because it will help her communicate with her beast better, especially with how much power it holds. Then the girls came out of the trees while I’m assuming Farlen was in a deep meditative state and ripped the glasses from her head. The entire class ran towards her as she tried to scream. Uh, we weren’t able to see who the girls were. Xander got Farlen into the shade as fast as he could. I told Daniel about what happened and he is expecting to see Farlen tonight. He wants to see how bad it affected her eyes. That’s pretty much all I got for you all. Though I am wondering how the hell you two got here.” He looks over at Xander and Vashu.

“She’s ours,” Vashu says. His voice is rumbly and sounds so much different from anyone else. It makes my stomach feel tight down low again. I look down at it and tell it NO SEX with my head. Connor laughs and laughs. He holds his stomach again while laughing. I look around, wondering if I missed something while I was talking to my stomach. Instructor Payne has his face in his hands, Rhi is smiling at me, and the dark parts of his eyes are very swirly right now. Xander and Vashu are both looking at me funny, and the dark part of their eyes is really big right now.

“Sweet girl, why don’t you go brush your teeth? I’m sure Zachariah would like to get to class soon.” I get up and go to my bathroom. As I brush my teeth, I hear Instructor Payne say quietly, “I’m going to assume her eyes are okay, she’s not wearing her sunglasses, and when I was here yesterday, they were on in the house.” Connor says, “We will talk about it tonight with the healer. You might as well be there too, seeing as you’re teaching her a lot of her subjects right now.” I don’t know why they are talking so quietly. I finish brushing my teeth and make sure I have my pants on right. As I leave my room, Rhi stands up from the table and grabs my bag and sunglasses. “Alright gorgeous, let’s go teach you some shit.”

Rhi grabs my hand and takes me outside. These sunglasses are dark. I can still see, but I liked it better with the other sunglasses. They were not as dark, and I could see more colors of the surrounding things. It’s nice walking with Rhi. He is just as warm as Connor, but I can hide behind him easier when people stare at me. He takes me to the classroom and grabs a desk and puts it down next to his. I sit down and start to take my recording thing out of my bag.

He sits down, grabs some papers and looks at them, his eyes moving back and forth. I close my eyes and think about how much my life has changed. I never thought I would ever get out of the darkness. I thought I was going to die soon. My body felt so tired all the time, and it was harder and harder to wake up after sleeping. But because of Connor and Rhi, now I have the sun in my life. I have men who are nice to me, not men who want tohurt me. And I have bacon.

“Oh man, I thought she died.” I hear someone say. I look around the room and Rhi is standing up. His hands are opening and closing a lot. There is the nice-looking girl standing in the room surrounded by a lot of guys. These aren’t the same as the other ones. I look back to Rhi again, and he looks mad, but he isn’t looking at me at all. He’s looking at the nice girl. I don’t want him to hurt her, so I walk over and give his hand a hand hug. Rhi looks down at me and he blows out a lot of air on my face and it makes me laugh. He smiles at me and gives my hand a hug back, then sits down. He looks better, so I go sit back down. It was nice to feel like I could make them feel better. They do so much for me. I’m glad that I could do something for them.

More and more people come into the room. Rhi looks around at everyone and then uses a pencil on one of his papers, then stands up. He goes to the wall and grabs the white stick again. I press the record button on my recorder. He watches me, then starts to write on the board.

“Alright, so last class, we covered the main branches of magic. There are healers, potion masters, elementalists, druids, demonic magic, necromancy, and those of the body. Today we are going to focus on the Healers. There are different types of healing magic. Some Healers can heal bodies, others can heal the earth, there are those who can only heal themselves, and some who can heal anyone from the brink of death, but can never heal themselves. There has never been a healer known in our histories who could do all of them. This is because it would take too much magic to be held within us to perform those acts.” He says each word as he writes it down on the wall. His letters look so much better than mine.

There’s a knock on the door. Rhi looks over to it and a very nice-looking lady walks in. She is so tall, her shoes look like they have pointy things on them. She has long black hair, and her boobs don’t look like they are going to make her fall over. Her eyes are not nice though, they are a yellow that reminds me of my pee.

“Sorry for interrupting Zach, but I have a student that I think you may need to come look over. He was supposed to have some small amount of mind magic, but it is looking like that may not be the case.” As she gets to him, she puts his hand on his arm and my stomach starts to make that rumbly noise. Rhi moves away from the lady. He looks around the room and looks at me.

“Alright class, I want each of you to practice feeling for your magic again. Remember, don’t try to push any commands into it, just feel it. What does it feel like? I should be back in a few minutes.”

He walks out of the room, and the lady follows behind him. As soon as the door closes, everyone behind me starts talking. I hear the pretty lady talking to Rhi.

“Really, Zach, that is who you left me for? You’ll be back in a month, tops.”

I don’t know what any of that means, so I focus on trying to feel for my magic. I look within me. I find the warm, rumbly spot that Instructor Payne told me about. It seems like it moves around a lot like my phone does when it gets a message. I try to find somewhere else in me that feels different. The only thing I feel is the rumbly warm spot. I can’t find anything, so I stop looking.

I hear Rhi yelling my name. There are people in the class screaming and yelling. I blink my eyes at him. Why is he yelling my name?

“Are you back?” He asks. His voice sounds funny.

“Back?” What does he mean back? He gives me a big hug. He has his phone on my desk. “Welcome back sweet girl, Healer Daniel is coming to get you. I am waiting for you at the clinic. He wouldn’t let me come with him.”

I look around the room. Where is Connor? I hear him but I don’t see him.

“He is on the phone, gorgeous. I called him as soon as I saw you. He ran to get Healer Daniel.”

Why get Healer Daniel? I look down at my clothes and they seem like they are wet. I try to touch them and Rhi grabs myhands. There’s blood all over my hand. I don’t understand what happened. My heart rate picks up, and the door to the classroom opens fast, hitting the wall and making a loud noise. Healer Daniel comes in and gets over to me fast. He doesn’t look happy. He looks at my face and my hands again.

“Where are her sunglasses? I don’t want to damage her eyes more.” I try to touch my face, my sunglasses are gone again? Rhi stops me from moving my hands again. Healer Daniel takes a big breath in through his nose.

“She smells of mind magic. Has she shown any aptitude for it?”

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