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Chapter Fifty-Eight

Chapter Fifty-Eight - Astral

KARA

I sat on the training floor with Edward beside as we waited for Xandar to arrive. I was gonna learn astral projection, the last magic I can do, and after that, we're gonna figure out why Edward isn't able to read my thoughts.

"How cold can you make the water?" he asked while leaning his head on my shoulder. I summoned up a ball of water that's the coldest I could make and handed it to him, "Why don't you try?"

He stuck his hand in it and pulled it out after a moment, "That's like my skin."

I giggled while throwing the water ball at the forest behind. We sat in comfortable silence until Xandar arrived.

"Mr. Cullen, what a surprise to see you here," he said as we got up from the floor. Edward waved it off, "Just Edward is enough, King Divinos."

"Then, just Xandar is enough, Edward."

They nodded at each other and I smiled. Xandar looked at me, "Time for astral projection."

He looked excited for this magic. I stood far away from them and looked at him.

"Okay, what do I do?"

He clapped, "Imagine your astral form, or simply, your soul, exiting your physical form. Separate your mind from your body. Focus on pulling your consciousness out of reality."

I took a deep breath and imagined a translucent form of myself leaving the physical one. I felt myself separate, starting from the tips of my fingers and toes, working up towards my torso.

Soon, I heard a 'pop' and looked at my hands. Sure enough, it was see-through. I heard Edward call my name and turned to him, only to notice that I, or actually, my astral body, was floating and that my physical one was falling backwards.

But I was saved by Xandar's levitation. He gently laid me on the ground and I tried to float over to him.

"Stay right where you are, Kara. I need to do something."

I stayed where I was, two feet from my body, floating in the air. While waiting, I took a look around the room. It looked the same, but everything was dimmed by a few tones. What I was seeing was darker than the real world.

It looked and felt surreal.

I felt a gust of wind from in front of me and saw that Xandar had made an opening with his magic. He motioned for me to float towards them, and I did. I eventually went through a barrier sort of thing and was met with the normal color of the world.

"The world you're in right now is the astral dimension. The upper half of your body is in our world now so we're able to see it. I'll teach you how to open this gateway after you've gotten used to this form."

I nodded and moved to touch his outstretched hand. I stared with curious eyes as his hand went through like I was air. I let out a breath and pulled my hand back.

Looking at my own hands, I went to clasp them together and it was like normal. I could feel my skin, the clothing on me and my hair.

"Kara," Xandar called and I looked up to meet his eyes. He stretched his hand out and projected part of his astral form. His hand and forearm were translucent but the others were still physical.

I could see his right hand fall limp as he put his astral hand through a gateway he opened and held mine. I watched in curiosity at this sorcery.

"Astral beings can feel others, and can only feel anything that's in this form," he explained and I nodded, glancing at Edward for a moment. He had a proud smile on and the corner of my lips lifted too.

I continued experimenting with the astral projection for a while until I got used to floating around in this form.

"Time to learn how to open a gateway from the astral dimension to our world."

I nodded and Xandar continued, "Break an opening in the astral dimension and pull it open. If done correctly, you'll feel wind blow through the gateway and you can put yourself through."

"Okay," I said and moved back into the dimmed surroundings before Xandar closed up the gateway. I floated behind them and imagined a crack in front of me before opening them up.

Wind blew through my face as I went through the gateway.

"Hey."

They flinched from my sudden greeting and turned around.

"There you are, I was starting to get worried," Xandar sighed in relief and I let out a laugh. He started speaking again, "Time to come back. Go to your physical form and reconnect your astral one with it."

I nodded and backed away before closing the gateway. I moved to my still body on the floor and reached out to see if I could feel it, but my hand went through my body.

I conjoined my astral and physical form together and before I knew it, I was back in the real world.

My eyes blinked on instinct as I got used to the bright colors. I pushed myself off the ground and walked towards Xandar and Edward. My vampire pulled me flushed against his side as he wrapped an arm around my waist. I felt him peck my temple and Xandar looked away, "Alright, alright, I know you're mates."

We lightly laughed. Edward asked Xandar, "Do you know why I can't read her mind?"

He tapped his finger on his chin as he thought.

"Only logical explanation is that she has a mental shield, but what's logical in our world? Pretty sure it's because of the Moon Goddess thing," he said while glancing back and forth at us.

"If it's that, then I should be able to disable it, right?" I asked and he pursed his lips, "We could take a trip to my library. There should be an answer."

Boom, the next chapter will have some sort of violence soooo...
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