The Fire Immortal-Book 5

Chapter 20

Here's the next chapter! Sorry for the delay in the update. I was super busy and teaching English tuition and I also have Advanced ballet, modern jazz  Grade 7 and contemporary dance exams in June/July and my violin diploma exam too, which was why I didn't really have time to update. I'm going to LA for a dance workshop/competition but I will update this again as soon as possible, I promise! I really love writing, so I will make as much time for that as possible too. Thank you all so much for being so loyal and sticking with me for so long! I really hope you guys enjoy the next chapter. ;) Picture of the spy on the side. :) 

Chapter 20

                       A fresh stabbing pain assaulted Helen's sense, making her reel away from the agony. Maybe it was weird, but even unconscious, Helen's mind was completely awake. Her telepathy prevented her brain from properly resting; she could still remember everything.

                      Hunter.

                      His death had been a shocking blow but that hadn't been the worst pain that Helen had felt. Luna's agony at predicting his death and being unable to prevent it had been paralyzing. Without realizing it, Luna had projected her thoughts all around the room because she had been thinking about it so intensely. Like it or not, Helen had absorbed her agonizing thoughts and now she had blacked out from the pain.

                     Maybe this was what the insanity bomb that Varmer had tried to deploy would have felt like.

                     Even in her unconscious state, Luna was still projecting her thoughts. A fresh wave of pain swept over Helen, enough to make her gag. She had no idea how to get away from her thoughts but she had to... or else she would really go crazy.

                    Now Helen understood how Valentine Adonis must have felt. He had been a magician living in Paris whom Troy, Dahlia and a few others had encountered while they had been with Sapphire and Tamarak in the Catacombs of Paris. He had been able to control emotions; he had doubtless been able to feel everything that was projected around him. Even though Helen could only read people's minds without them saying a word, their emotions were often carried with those thoughts. If she was feeling only a fraction of the pain that he would be, if he were in the same situation... she did not envy him the slightest. It was not the first time that Helen thought that these powers might be more of a hindrance than a help.

                     Her own thoughts were a jumbled-up tornado in her mind. All at once, her mind focused on Cedric, the one guy on the Isle of Avalon whose mind was impenetrable to her telepathy. She envied him for his blissful silence; there was nothing she could do to shut up the voices that assaulted her head.

                     When Luna's thoughts unleashed yet another petrified scream, Helen let out her own shriek of pain, scrambling away from her as fast as she could. In desperation, she jumped into the closest mind she could find: Sapphire's.

                     Here however, there was no respite from Luna's pain. Helen could now feel that and Sapphire's overshadowing guilt at breaking up with Tamarak, still loving him and desperately wishing that he would not die too. Her guilt at kissing Romulus in front of Tamarak was eating her out from the inside even though she technically was not cheating on him.

                    Helen tried to slip away unobtrusively, but as she left, she could not help seeing another scene, in Sapphire's memories, in which she and Romulus had kissed... in the library a while ago. Helen could tell that it had been Romulus kissing Sapphire and not the other way around, but she could still feel Sapphire's overwhelming guilt that she had enjoyed it.