Alle Kapitel von Leesa's Advent: Kapitel 291 – Kapitel 300

Leesa felt a faint tingle begin to crawl up her forearms, almost like a very mild electric current was passing from Dominic’s hands into hers. The feeling was not unpleasant at all. It moved slowly up her arms into her shoulders and then down through her torso. In less than a minute, she felt like her whole body was vibrating softly.If possible, Dominic’s stare seemed to become even more focused. The lower part of Leesa’s right leg began to grow warm. Suddenly, she felt a flash of intense heat just above her ankle, but it was gone before it could bring any pain. Dominic let go of her hands.“It is done,” he said.“What’s done?” Leesa asked. “What did you do?”Dominic held up a finger, silencing her.“Just a moment,” he said. He closed his eyes.Leesa recognized the look of intense concentration that etched itself into Dominic’s features. It lasted maybe ten second

Leesa had not dreamed in quite some time—not one of her special dreams, at any rate. In the weeks after summoning a dream to help her defeat the xenorians, she had been visited by a number of magical dreams, all of which were disturbing and none of which she could remember in any detail. Both her book and Dominic told her this was normal—that once you unlocked the dream power by calling forth a vision, more dreams were almost certain to follow. And they were typically difficult to remember or interpret.After a few weeks, the dreams had finally ceased—until tonight. She knew she was dreaming right now. Somehow, she also knew she was going to remember this one. She and Cali were walking on the sidewalk along the outskirts of a college campus. It was not Weston College—the small lake across the street was all the proof Leesa needed to tell her that. There were no lakes on the Weston grounds.A lush green lawn sloped down to th

Leesa and Dominic sat in the SUV, which was parked in front of Leesa’s apartment complex. Dominic had driven over as soon as he received her call, not wanting to waste any time hearing the details of what she had to say. When Leesa came outside, he had simply slid over into the passenger seat. With the windows down, the fresh, cool morning air flowed over them. Leesa could smell the sweet scent of a nearby morning glory hedge.As she recounted her dream, Dominic listened with the same look of relaxed concentration he usually bore whenever she told him something important. He nodded now and then and asked one or two questions to clarify a point, but for the most part he just let her tell the story in her own words. When she finished repeating the details of her dream, she told him about the results of her computer search.“I was going to tell you about the dream in any case,” she said. “But when I read the article about the murders, I knew I had

The result was nowhere near as crisp and clean as she would have liked, but she did manage to break her beam into several uneven parts. The hard rock was unmarked by the blasts, but that didn’t concern her at this point.“Not bad for a first attempt,” Dominic said. “Not bad at all.” The wizard returned to his seat upon the boulder. “Try again.”For the next twenty minutes, Leesa repeated her effort more than a dozen times. Occasionally, Dominic would stop her and offer some instruction. With each attempt her control grew better, until her final try resulted in quick bursts of energy that were nearly all the same length.Dominic pushed himself up from the boulder. “Well done,” he said. “Now we need to work on the strength of your beam.”He shuffled over to the rocky outcropping, motioning Leesa to follow. She joined him beside the rock wall.Dominic held his hand out so that it was ju

As they approached Balin’s cabin, Leesa saw Rave standing in the open doorway. She loved how he always knew when she was near—the touch of vampire essence in her blood assured that it would always be like that. She wondered if there would ever be a way that she could sense his presence in a similar manner.“If I was the rain,” Rave said as Leesa neared the doorway, “I’d be very frustrated at not being able to touch you.”Leesa let her air shield dissipate and ran the last few steps into Rave’s waiting arms. She loved when he said things like that.“Luckily, you don’t ever have to worry about that,” she said as she hugged him tightly. “I’ll always make sure you can touch me.”Pressed against Rave’s warm chest, Leesa could feel herself beginning to dry. Rave ran his hands across her cheeks and then down her ponytail, quickly drying her with his magical heat everywhere