Changer's Blood (Balancer's Soul cycle) (26 page)

“Try it again.”
He
said and she shook her head vehemently in
his chest. Connor
replied to her answer by saying
seriously
“
If you don’t
try again
,
I am going to go higher
and quickly
.
I can probably reach the clouds in a minute or so.
”

Her eyes shot up to
his
a
nd
pleaded for mercy. While maintaining
their
location and holding her hands
he
waited for her to r
elax. When she understood that he
wasn’t
bluffing
her eyes
slowly
change
d
to determination. She then slowly added a slow rotation as
he
drifted back
around the cottage
. He
quickly unders
tood what she was trying to do.

A
ll
she wanted an aerial dance.

Connor
ripped
his
hands from hers as
he
understood her intentions. Before she understood what
he
did
Connor
cl
osed the distance and wrapped his
hands around the small of her back. W
hen she refocused her eyes on him
she wrapped
both of
her hands around the back of
his
neck
and smiled genuinely
. “When did you know that I wanted to dance without reading my mind?” Her
soft voice
became
the music to their
dance.

“After the second rotation. Aren’t you glad you tried
flying once
again?
Even after
my
threat.
”
He
smiled down at her
with a peaceful expression
. She closed her eyes and nodded
and soon
after
she
put her head against
his
chest.

After four slow revolutions around
the
property
they
pulled away from each other. She said softly “I think I’m
finally
getting the hang of this.”

Connor
took that as
his cue to let go. When he
released her grip
,
she wobbled for a moment until she looked down at her feet and adjusted them to regain her balance.
He
pushed
his
left leg forward and slo
wly backed away from her until he
flew
far
away for her to do this on her own
yet
remain
close enough to catch her if she fell.

“Are you ready for stage two?” He
asked as she refocused on
him
again.

As she hovered abo
ve the stream that’s travels beside the
cottage she asked “What’s stage two?
You never said anything about this…
”

“You
’
r
e
going to man
ipulate two elements at once.” He
said
while
smiling at her.

“And
just
how am I goin
g to hope to accomplish
something like
that?” S
he crossed her arms slowly while trying to not make
big
corrections.
At least she didn’t continue to bite her lip anymore.

“
Let me alter my previous analogy.
Think of it this way,
when you drive your car
,
you are actually doing four or five things at the same time.” She tilted her head and her green eyes were boring intently at
him
. “When you drive
,
you
r eyes
are watching everything, your foot is on the accelerator or brake
to judge
the
speed
at w
hat you wish to travel
, your hands are steering the vehicle and your
ears are
listening to everything around you
;
all at the same time.
What you’re
actually
doing is splitting
up
your mind up to do
accomplish differen
t tasks. That is what you ne
ed to do with your abilities.
Break them down into smaller tasks.
” Connor
looked around for a
nother good example. “Like this!” He
looked dow
n at the water below her feet. He
focused on the water and felt a coo
l flowing energy descend down his
left arm. An orb of water
separated
from the flowing stream below Sarah and accumulate
d
in his
hand as a rotating ball of water.

When
he
looked up she
s
mil
ed
and
he
could feel that she understood
the example
. She said
while
still smiling “So you are telling me to portion m
y mind to multitask?” he
nodded and she asked “Can you stand on the ground below me as I attempt something?”

Without questioning her
he
eased the flow of energy from
his
legs
and began to drop
. When
he
touched down
on the solid ground
he
walked to the water
’
s edge a
nd
looked up at her. “I’m ready down here.”
Connor
called up and
still
felt that
he
had surplus of energy to spare
,
even
after everything that
he’s
done so far.

He
could see that she closed her eyes
to concentrate
and cou
ld feel
that she was
maintaining her energy flow to stay afloat while she gathered more for
a different purpose. When
her
eyes
open
ed
again he
saw two separate streams of water funneling up towards Sarah and encasing her
bare
arms in the liquid. It looked like she had two clear sleeves of water over her arms.
T
he water stopped just before it touched her sleeveless black shirt
and got wet
.

Then she
began
giggling
. “I did it!”

Connor
felt so
immensely
proud of her that
he
shot
skyward
and scooped her into
his
arms
. She lost her concentration as
he
felt the water sleeves splash against
his shirt
.
For a moment she looked up at him
with wide eyes until
they both started laughing. He
kis
sed her for doing so well. And he
gently glided
them
back to the ground and
were content enough to
lay on the cool grass as
they
watched the clouds going by.

An hour later
,
after
they
relaxed enough
,
Sarah sat up and asked “Can we do an experiment
or two?
”

“What do you have in mind?” He
sat up as well and tucked some of her loose hair behind her ear.
She smiled pleasurably.

“Well let’s start with…”

Waking up in the morning
,
Connor fixed breakfast as
Sarah
took
a
shower.
W
hen she finally
stepped
out she
saw
that
both Mark and Kara
were sitting
at the dining table. “Good Morning
,
Sarah.” Mark said with a full mouth of bread. And Kara chastised him for talking with a full mouth.

Mark wore his leather pants again and Kara attired her usual pink top and white shorts. It was still amazing how toned her legs are
,
especially for a girl her size. She also brought her bow and quiver again.

Sarah
sat down and the four of
them
ate together. Kara looked at Connor and asked “Did you get your business started
,
Brother?” He nodded and told her about his new number along with waiting until he gets his first customers.

After
they ate a hearty breakfast they
all walked together instead of running to the pract
ice field. It took longer than Sarah
expected, but the four finally made it the
re almost at the same time as her
parents.
She now appreciated
being mated for she never knew just how much more efficient it was until that long walk.

“Good morning kids.”
Jillian
said in greeting
as they walked over
. She still brought her bikini top, but this time it
showed to be
blue and she also had on red short shorts.

Jack
wa
ved and smiled. He said to Connor “Ready to get roasted
,
boy”

Connor grinned. “Like the taste of dirt do ya?
”

“You
’
r
e
feeling frisky this morning aren’t you?”
Sarah
said
while
entering his mind.

“I just can’t wait to show him my new moves princess. You’ve given me all kinds of great ideas
after yesterday’s trials
.”
He smiled
and handed
her
Tool and
Jack
handed
Haunt
over
to
his mate
. The
two men eagerly
started walking away from
the
group
to begin the day off right, with a fight.

Yesterday Sarah
talked Connor into working with
her
to develop abilities
.
She
suggested
they
try some
aerial combat and defense. It took
her
awhile to get
accustomed
to flying and shooting water at him while he dodged
and did the same for
her
.
S
he couldn’t believe how adept he was. It was as if he
had been
born to fly. She
finally got the hang of doing two elements simultaneously, but doing three at the same time
proved
too much of
a challenge
at this point
.
She was
looking forward to hopefully be
ing
able to do all five
at the same time one day
.

As Jack
and
Connor continued walking away Sarah
heard snapping.
She
turned and saw that Mark
began
changing into his other form.
She
had to ask “Mark if I may; what do you call that form?”

He barked a laugh and said in his deep animalistic voice “Just call this form
what it looks like, a
wolf.” Kara walked up and started scratching his
pelt
absentmindedly
; just
like you would s
troke
your pet
’s back
. He kept his hai
r
fine and loose instead of
fused together like
when in combat
.
Sarah
knew he did it for his girl and by the grin on his muzzle he was
deeply
enjoying the
simple
scratch.