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Reece
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"What kind of powerful being do you think it is, sister? What could be blocking you and keeping the Luna Queen away?" Charlie was whispering to his sister, but I could still hear him, even though I was across the room. And even though I was thinking very loudly inside my mind.
"I do not know, Charlie, I just do not know. Though I can tell you that this is a stronger entity than we have ever come in contact with. We need to be careful. Very careful." I could see the look in Chloe's eyes from here. She was scared, but was trying not to show it to me, the Alpha King, or to Trevor, her Alpha.
"I will be careful, sister, do not worry about that. I will make the connection to the Luna Queen and see what I can find. After that, if I cannot locate her, we will work together. You know we are stronger together." Charlie's voice was soft and soothing as he spoke to his sister. I could tell that he was trying to keep her calm as well as remain calm himself.
After that, Charlie rose to his feet and started to do exactly what his sister had. He removed his cloak and then his shirt and pants. Under his clothes, he was wearing a loose fitting pair of black boxers. He, like his sister, had no fastening on his shirt, pants, or shoes. I once again thought that it was because those fastenings would be too difficult for their fingers to manage with the claws at their tips.
Much like Chloe, Charlie's fur was starting to glow. And just like his sister's fur, it was just the tips that changed in a seemingly random array of rainbow colors. So far, there was no difference that I could see in what he and his sister were doing.
After he was ready, Charlie put his hand on my Little Bunny's forehead, the same as Chloe had. He closed his eyes and a light started to shine from him.
Here was a difference that I noticed between Charlie and Chloe. Unlike Chloe's muted and dark light that was not too hard on the eyes, Charlie had a very bright, very hard to look at white light. It was bright and radiated throughout the entire room.
Then, after my eyes were closed and I was covering them with my arm to help me block out the pain-inducing light even more, I was back to noticing another similarity between the twins. Just as Chloe's light had done, Charlie's light felt like it was touching me all over.
That was such an unpleasant feeling. This was a man, a guy that I had never met before today, and his magical light fingers were copping a feel all over my body. It felt so creepy and nasty that I understood right then and there why women hated being groped out of the blue or by people that they didn't know and trust. Basically, by anyone that wasn't their significant other. It just made them feel wrong and dirty. At least, that was what it was making me feel like.
I also vowed to myself right then and there that neither Trevor nor myself would ever mention this outside of this room. And to make it more official I decided to tell him that right now.
'Never, and I do mean never, ever tell anyone about this. No one is to know that we felt what this light is doing to us.'
'Agreed.' I had told him through the mental connection we had gotten from my Little Bunny and he answered in the same way. The problem was, using that ability made me think about my wife that much more and it only broke me even more.
Finally, the light started to subside. Those nasty, disgusting, invisibly groping hands started to recede, and I was finally able to open my eyes and hold my head up once more. And I hoped that I would never have to experience that ever again.
"What did you see? Was there anything that you were able to tell that your sister was not?" I kind of jumped on the topic the moment that Charlie's light had fully disappeared. Maybe I should have given him a little bit more time. Though, unlike Chloe, Charlie didn't look quite as exhausted.
"My sister was correct. She is not here. There are traces of her soul throughout this room and other parts of this tower. I was able to reach farther than my sister was alone, and I can see where the soul of the Luna Queen was. And I even sensed the souls of three little children. They are following the Luna Queen, almost as if she is traveling with them and they are helping each other. I sense that she has a very protecting nature with them." He could see all of that, but he couldn't see my Little Bunny. Why? Where was she?
"Of course she would feel protective of them. They're her children. She is pregnant and those are our children." I was speaking with so much force that I think I frightened the two bears.
"Yes, I gathered that much." Charlie looked around the room like he was slightly uncomfortable. I think he knew what Trevor and I had felt during that little excursion of his and he was embarrassed by it.
"Charlie, I have a question." Trevor spoke up to ask Charlie something. I hadn't been expecting him to ask anything, so it caught me as well as the other man by surprise.
"Yes, Alpha Trevor? How might I be of assistance to you?" At least the man knew how to be respectful of an Alpha, even though he had been isolated for almost his entire life.
"I heard you tell Chloe earlier that you are stronger together. That after you searched for the Luna Queen alone, you would search for her together. Why wouldn't you just combine your strengths from the beginning and search for her together from the very beginning?"
Now that he mentions that, I had wondered the same thing when I heard them say that. Why would they drag something like this out if they didn't have to?
"There is a very good explanation for that, Alpha Trevor. Chloe and I have reached many souls in our lives, we have tried to jump in with our powers combined before, but it didn't work."
"That is right. We have found that when we do not orient ourselves with the person that we are trying to connect with before we go full strength, then we are shooting off blindly without knowing where to go or what to look for." Chloe seemed to be feeling better and was now standing right beside her brother.
"Alright, that makes sense, I guess." I nodded at them.
"Thank you for explaining that." Trevor nodded as well as if he was telling them that he understood. "What is the next stage? Where do we go from here?" I was so thankful for him asking that question for me.. That was exactly what I wanted, no, what I needed to know.
