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She panicked. She did not face someone stronger than herself until now, maybe except for Tiger, but she knew his style from the training sessions they always had in the morning, and that was not him holding her against the wall.
"Stop... fighting me!" the voice she knew so well, made her calm down.
"What are you doing??"
"Do you want to tell him how you charged it?"
"No..."
"So come with me then!"
The dark figure led her to the room where Shade had reconfigured her armor.
-Xande?
-Finnaly!
-Do you want to tell me what are you doing here?
-I need your help.
-With what? You scared me there...
-I did not mean to.
-What can I help you with?
-I need you to amplify my mind field.
-What? Why??
-I think mother had tried to reach me but I can not make sense of what she is trying to tell me. It is all distorted but... I think they need help.
-What??? How come she tried to contact you instead of me??
-Did you hear anyone else but yourself lately?
Her little brother made her feel ashamed. She was hurt nonetheless. Her mother tried to reach her little brother, and she had no idea... How could she not hear her yet he did? He was the younger one! He was supposed to have fewer powers... She should have heard their mother instead of him, was she not?
-I trained.
-Your block is good... I could not pass it...
-I know.
-You know? Did you do that on purpose?
-Ofcourse. I had a lot of time to train in the war, sister. Let's try, please. Focus...
They stood like that, hand in hand for a little while, with their eyes closed, concentrating in silence. At some point, Moon felt Xande flinch.
-What do you hear?
-This!
Xande projected into her mind the fainted voice of their mother. The projection itself had flooded Moon's mind, making her fall down to the floor and holding her head in her palms, trying to cover her ears as if the sound was so lauded in her mind, that she had no control over it.
Shade just came in and seeing Moon on the floor rushed into the room and grabbed her, not understanding what they were doing.
-Xande, you are hurting her!
-Aahhh... she could not even scream, because Xande made a gesture and her voice just faded, her eyes closed and her body fell limb into Shade's arms.
-Xande!! Stooop it!!! Shade looked at his brother confused and worried for his sister.
-She is fine, we are trying to amplify mother's voice.
-What??
-She tried to reach us, but I can not hear her alone. I needed Moon to amplify her voice.
Tiger just rushed into the room as well.
-Did you manage to do it?
He noticed Moon and also squatted near Shade, and took her in his arms, placing her on the table.
-What is happening here? Kaion had also figured out something was going on and entered the room to find out Moon inert on the table. What is going on? What has happened?? I heard her scream...
-She fell and hit her head, but she will be alright, Tiger answered Kaion who was looking at them all confused. It did not think like he believed a word they have said to him.
"There is another thing..." Shade did not change his expression as Kaion was in the room with them, but wanted to communicate what he just witnessed earlier, in their mind space, so nobody could hear them.
"What?"
"This one had built a portal by himself, and Moon just did something to generate power and charge it. "
"What?? When did that happen??"
"Just a few minutes earlier. She almost opened that portal. I don't know how, but she can do it. And she did not want this one to know about it."
"Good, we need to know first. This one needs to go home and we need to get our parents back from there."
"If he finds out what Moon can do, he can steal the knowledge and go home. We need to keep this from him for now, until Moon wakes up..." Shade also jumped into the conversation.
In the meantime, Kaion realized that something was going on, as the three of them were so quiet yet exchanging looks.
-Are you speaking in your mind or just admiring each other's looks? he tried to let them know he noticed them. They looked at him and kept quiet, not willing to share what they knew. You know is not polite to have secrets in public, right?
The brothers smiled to each other.
-Moon said you were to show us what you have worked on so far? Shade tried to make him talk about his work, to see if he would share anything about it or not. If he was to keep it a secret, then they would need to make a decision about it. And about him too.
-Yes, I want to show you but... Kaion had taken the bait without realizing that was exactly what Tiger wanted him to do. But... what about her? Is she alright?
-I am here, Xande spoke to them, you should go check, I will stay with her.
-Right, let's see what you worked on, Kaion.
-This way, Kaion was more than eager to show Tiger his construction.
They have entered the room where Kaion had spent the last three months building and asking for all kinds of materials. The king had provided, of course. And he had built a portal, all by himself. Well, with Moon.
-Wow!
It was huge... Two tall stone pillars, like two columns, supported like a frame for a fragile energy field, which looked so much like the gates that opened to their world. It was incredible that they hadn't thought of making a replica so far so they could control the energy field and manipulate it so they could travel. It was impressive!! All the work he had done, it was really impressive!
Kaion seemed pretty proud of his work, and he should be, Tiger had thought.
-You did good... Now how do you plan to feed it? Where do you get so much energy from, in order to open it toward your world?
-I do not really know it yet. It would not load from fire, nor the winds... we tried it but it did not work, we still need to think about alternative ways to charge it...
-What about coordinates? How do you know where will you get if you enter it?
-I do not know that either, yet... we just going to build a command panel so we can try the rune combinations, see which one works.
-A command panel? Alright... and the navigation map? How do you know you will not end up dead somewhere instead of your home?
-I did not run tests yet, I just built it. But today, something built up the energy field, and it was not me! I do not know what has happened! It just opened the portal and then it just closed!
-But how? What was it?
-I don't know... It just... opened, like ... I don't know... It just did...
-It should be researched safely. You don't want to go in there and not know what is on the other side...
-True...
-So do not... enter it yourself. Where is the team I assigned for this work with you?
-Umm... They all went to some meeting for today... Those who had helped me build this... I am alone here, with her... but she... You said she fled? Did you not bring any healer yet?
-She does not need any healer, our brother is with her.
"Is done..." Xande's voice resounded in both their minds. "We have a contact ..."
-Is he a healer? Kaion asked more than worried. Why was he this worried for some young lady who was going to be history soon?
"Good. Keep doing what you need, but keep Moon safe! We need her alright, do not hurt her!"
-Yes, he is something like a healer for us.
-Pretty young to be a healer, right? It looks like you are so strong, a powerful clan, with all these powers... Your enemy does not have the same powers, right?
-No, Tiger looked at him, trying to figure out what he was thinking about. What did he have in mind?
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