DAUGHTER OF MOON AND BLOOD
I pulled back carefully, not cutting it off completely, but enough to make it clear that whatever it thought it had found, it didn’t have full access to it.
The response was immediate, a flicker of resistance, not anger or frustration, but confusion, sharp and unfamiliar, as if it didn’t understand why the connection had shifted or why what had opened had closed again.
Good.
Let it be confused.
Because that gave me time.
The thread loosened slightly, not gone and never gone, but less invasive and less certain.
I exhaled slowly, my shoulders easing just a fraction as the immediate pressure faded.
Kael’s hand found my arm then, firm and grounding.
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