Free Bliath: Shattered by Theresa Caligiuri Page B

limbo,” she nodded, “Limbo is a state of mind, right now your body is sick and trying to deal with your magical bindings breaking that your mind sort of sent you here to be safe.  I am not sure why I can visit you here, but I get pulled back, either by me willing it like the first time or my mother pulled me back the last time, I didn’t mean to leave you.”  She mouthed Oh, and then asked, “Why would my mother want my magic bound?”  “I am not sure, but I think you will find out in the near future, I have a plan, and the first part involves getting you out of here.”  She weakly smiled at him, not completely trusting him she asked “Really?”  He nodded and her smile brightened.  Vance slowly reached out and touched her face.  “Ok Fera, first I think I need to explain things a little better, once you understand, I think you won’t be so fearful when I have to leave again.  After all, knowledge is the key to open any door.”  Fera laughed a little, “Ok Vance, you sound just like my tutor Markus.” 
     
    Vance spent a while teaching her the properties of magic, how she could hold the energy, and let it go to change things, to conjure things, explaining to her how he thought if they used that energy how it might help her wake up.  She shyly looked up under her eyelashes “Vance, you will be there when I wake up right?”  She slightly blushed, but when he looked at her she felt like butterflies were dancing in her stomach. “Yes, I just hope you still remember me when you wake up.”  He blushed back.  “If I don’t remember, make me, I mean remind me but something tells me I will know you.”  They both laughed.
     
    “Ok, Vance, what should I do, what do you want me to create, or change?”  Vance walked around the meadow, and turned back to her, “Make the sun come out.”  Fera was having trouble collecting the energy, Vance stepped up behind her, putting his hands over hers, helping her draw it in, he heard her gasp again, “I know over time you will get used to the slight sting. Are you ready to let it go?”  Fera closed her eyes, she pictured the warm sun, how it felt inviting and like an old friend, she let go of the energy, even before she opened her eyes, she could feel the warm glow it the sun kissing her face.  She let out a squeal of pure joy, and spun around in Vance’s arms and threw her arms around his neck.  He laughed at her joy, “Do you always react like this when you do well I once of you lessons or did you just have a sudden desire to touch me?”  She gave him a playful scowl, “No, or I would never stop squealing, because I’m a genius.”  She stuck out her tongue at him and laughed, ignoring the touching him comment on purpose.  “Ah there you are, I knew you couldn’t be so sullen and serious all the time.”  He laughed with her.  “So dear Princess, how does magic feel to you?”  “Well I have to say good, really good, like breathing, or I don’t know natural, I feel happy and scared and excited and about 20 other things all at once.”  “Well, you were made for magic!”  He beamed down at her.  “Funny thing is, I just thought I wasn’t that special, up until a few days ago, I didn’t know my mother was well, who she was, and my dad is only half dwarf, so I figured there wasn’t enough magic in my veins to even fully talk to animals.  One word answers or feeling is all I could ever get from them.  I could understand Oren best, but I am around him a lot.  Is he doing ok?” Vance was still trying to process the fact that she thought she was common, even before he realized she was who she was, or even how much magic she had or didn’t have, she was not common to him, anything but common, he chortled in his head.  He read a fairytale to Larin one night and in it, the Prince told the poor village girl that nothing mattered because her soul was made of the same stuff his was and sang a song only for him.  At the time he