Page 64 of Vicar
She nodded and gave it to him.
Unlike touching Vicar, there weren’t any sensual sparks of awareness, but thereweresparks of another variety. Energy unique to Tor. Not just of the healing variety but psychic energy. She wasn’t sure how she knew, only that she did. His magic felt kindred to hers. Peaceful and balancing. Insightful.
So insightful that she clearly recalled spending time with him when they were children.
More than that, she remembered Raven approaching her when they were young. The age Trinity had been when she’d sought Thor’s counsel on how to control her other half.
A memory that everyone present could follow.
“What is it?” Raven had asked. “Why are you crying?”
It was nighttime, and her sister should have been asleep by now. She and Raven had shared a bedroom. Maya and Jade had shared another. The idea had been to keep a more negative sister with a more positive one when they slept. A means to keep everything in balance.
“I’m not crying,” Trinity had denied softly.
“You are,” Raven’s vision was excellent at night. “Even if I couldn’t hear you, I can see you.” Before she knew it, Raven had crawled into bed with her, whipped a blanket over their heads, turned on a flashlight, and met her eyes. “So why are you crying? Because you've never been so sad.”
She had done well thus far keeping everything secret from her sisters, but something about that moment, or perhaps even the way Raven could pull information from people so easily, made her finally share everything. From meeting a little red Viking dragon boy to time traveling back and forth to see him.
“How did you travel back?” Raven had asked.
“I call or roar to Vicar, or he calls or roars to me,” she replied. “If we’re able to hang out, the other replies, and I end up with him.”
When Raven looked at her with confusion, she elaborated.
“I think it’s because of how we first met.” She explained how she eventually remembered sensing him from Múspellsheimr before she was born.How she heard his roar, and he felt her distress. It connected them somehow. So much so that even after she was born, they were able to find each other across time.
“Wow.” Trinity shook her head at Vicar. “How did we forget that?” She frowned. “And how did I forget this memory? It was one of the few times Raven didn’t seem despondent. It rang true to her somehow. I could see it in her eyes. She cared deeply. So I came clean about everything.”
“And she never said a word,” Jade kicked in, baffled. “More than that, she kept it deeply repressed because none of us ever sensed it in her mind.”
“Any more than we sensed anything in any of our minds about this place and our time here,” Trinity reminded. “So she might not have repressed it. Someone else might have.”
“True,” Jade conceded as the memory continued.
Young Trinity poured her heart out, right down to Thor giving her counsel.
“He said I should ask for your help,” Trinity said in conclusion.
“Then why didn’t you?” Raven asked, perplexed.
“Because I didn’t want to upset you,” Trinity replied. “I didn’t want your energy to get too low.” She shrugged a shoulder. “What good would that do? Especially considering you knew nothing of this so how could you help? How could you make it so I could be around Vicar without my mean side taking over?”
“Well, does your mean side take over when you sleep?” Raven wondered, not missing a beat.
“Not that I know of.” She frowned. “Maybe a little but not too much.” She wiped away a tear. “Why?”
“Because I think I can help,” Raven revealed. “I do this thing that might work for you too.” She touched Trinity’s bracelet. The one Aunt Elsie had given them, so she wasn’t subjected to their varying energies when she communicated telepathically with them. A bracelet that also bonded her to her sisters. “I leave my body and travel when I sleep. I’m pretty sure I could help you do it too.” She wiggled Trinity’s bracelet. “All you have to do is touch this to get back.” She snapped her fingers. “And just like that, you’ll be back here in bed dreaming.”
“You mean I can leave my body and travel back to visit Vicar?” Trinity said. “Spend time with him without my mean side taking over?”
“Yes.” Raven nodded. “Just let me know where you want to go, and I’ll send you there.”
She went on to explain how Trinity wouldn’t be whole, as she called it, but transparent. She would still be there, though. Still able to converse with one person.
“Why just one person?” she had asked.
“Because that’s how it goes,” Raven explained. “You can connect with one person, and that’s it. And only ever that same person.
