The way that it should have been

Chapter 30

I watched as my babushka and Abe both shook their heads before my babushka answered my question verbally. "No Vika. Even soul mates seldomly are able to feel each other's locations, thoughts, feelings, and emotions like Dimka and Roza can. But Roza also thinks that it is because of her powers most of the time and not because she and Dimka are soul mates. Now don't get me wrong she knows that they are soul mates, just as he does. But neither of them realize that their being soul mates is mostly why they can do that." (grandmother, grandmother)

Sonja and I both nodded. But Karo brought us back around to her original question. "I'm not trying to be rude or anything babushka, but what did you mean about Zoya?" (grandmother)

"Zoya's abilities are a lot stronger and far more advanced and powerful than mine have ever been. And unlike Dimka, she will remain completely open for the rest of her life. Although he could open himself back up if he chose to, since he is the one who closed himself off. As for little Zoya, I was hoping that the despair that was about to hit the household would not crush the barrier that I had Adele build around little Zoya shortly after she was born."

"My poor baby."

"What do you mean by barrier babushka?" I asked. (grandmother)

"I felt her powers increasing the farther along in your pregnancy that you got Karo. So, I asked my friend Adele, who is what some people call a witch but she just like Princess Vasilisa and Oksana is a spirit user. But as I was saying, I asked Adele to come up with a way to block Zoya's powers for as long as possible. If I hadn't, then she would have been seeing God only knows what all from the day that she was born. Even before she was born actually since she was already seeing some things even then. Although it was nothing that she understood or that she remembers now. I was hoping that the barrier that Adele built around Zoya would last at least until she turned ten years old. My powers started to present themselves when I was just five years old. Or at least that is the earliest that I can remember them anyway, and they were very difficult to deal with at such a young age. I didn't want little Zoya to have to deal with all of this so young. But the despair that hit the house was just so great that it broke through the barrier that Adele had built."

"So, my baby is going to be seeing the same things that you do?"

"Da. Well, I don't know if she will see the same things that I do. But I do know that she will be seeing, hearing, and feeling things that most others can't and wouldn't want to. And she will be doing so for the rest of her life. There will be things that a child of her age certainly shouldn't ever have to see. But God will never put more on her shoulders that what she can deal with. We all already know that. But thankfully it won't all be bad; she will just have to take the good with the bad. And learn to live with the things that she sees as well as the things that she hears, feels, and knows. But I will help her just as much as I possibly can, and I imagine that Roza would be more than willing to help her as well. After she has healed from losing so much of her family that is." (yes)

"Roza? How?"

"Roza has a great deal of magic, visions are just one of the things that she can do. As for how, it is just part of her being shadow kissed. Being shadow kissed is a VERY difficult thing to deal and cope with I am afraid. Especially being the type of shadow kissed person that Roza is."

"I guess I really should have kept my mouth shut when Roza was telling us who she is and about herself and not interrupted." I thought again, this time out loud.

My babushka gave a half smile a nod and agreed with, "mmm hmm." (grandmother)

"Is there any way that I can protect my baby girl babushka? Now that the barrier has been destroyed." (grandmother)