Changer's Blood (Balancer's Soul cycle) (25 page)

While
Jillian and Jack
contemplated what he said
Sarah
contacted
her
mate’s
mind.
“Should we bring them with us
,
just incase?”

“No.”
H
e turned his head t
o
lay
his raptor like eyes on her
.
“This is something we need to develop on our own.
They cannot help since they aren’t Pressure Balancers.
Don’t worry
,
there isn’t anyone who knows what we are going through let alone be able help in a
ny
constructive way. They don’t have a manual for
our circumstance
so we need to make our own
,
Princess.”

He did have a point.
Sarah
turned to see
her
parents watching
them
with curious eyes. “What are you up
to?”
her f
ather asked with a child
like grin.

Jokingly Connor said “Just thinking about what your
future
gr
anddaughters might look like.” Sarah
felt
her
face flame red
,
imagining a child
they
would one day
conceive
together. Unfortunately her
parents took the joke the wrong way.

Jack’s
complexion
turned a ghost
l
y white yet he said nothing.
Jillian’s
face
transformed into
the exact opposite. Her
gold
eyes started glistening a
s
a smile
began spreading
from ear to ear. She asked quickly “Sarah is it
… Are you pregnant?”

Sarah
had to think quickly before this
situation
got
any further
out of hand. “No Mother
,
I’m not. We were just thinking what character
istics she might get from us.” She
squeezed his hand hard.
“Why did you do that? What possessed you to joke about that
subject
?”

“I did it for you.”

“Explain!”
She
wasn’t in a great mood
at the moment, and he knew it
.

“I did it to get your mind off what we are about to do
..
. Did it work?”
Unfortunately he did get
her
mind off flying, but
she
wouldn’t tell him that.

She
looked back at
her
parents and
her
father gained
back
some color in his face from the false alarm.
Her m
other on the other hand
began
pouting
and it was a pitiful sulk
of disappointment
. Her bottom lip puffed out
like a cold who was told no
as she said to herself “It would be great to have a grandchild. Not even Amber has conceived yet and she’s been mated for
over
two hundred years.
I want a grandchild…
”

Connor stood
,
taking Sarah
up as well by the hand.
Jillian
looked up at
them
with a questioning expression. “Jillian
,
I promise one day that you’ll be a
terrific
grandmother.
We’ll have to wait and see what the future holds.
”

She
smiled as if she couldn’t wait till that day.

Then they left soon after.

They soon made it home and Sarah
asked Connor when he’d like to get started.

Flight and Grounded

“How about
we get started on
it now?” Connor
suggested to Sarah as she held
him
in those sexy emerald green eyes
of hers
.
Such eyes have seen more than any
normal
living person and they alone captivated him more than any other.

She slightly nodded as she
gnawed on
her bottom lip
in worry and reluctance
.
Connor
could f
eel her apprehension
slipping through
their link
and
fear
of flying again
after her last attempt
made it worse
. Sarah gracefully walked right up to
him
and held out each of her palms
,
face up
. He
took each of her hands into
his own
as
she
close
d
her eyes and sigh
ed
to
push her dread to the side
. “Don’t use as much energy this time.”
He suggested in mild humor.

H
er eyes shot open in defiance to
the
sarcasm.

“I won
’
t
,
as long a
s you don’t interrupt me.” S
he couldn’t keep a straigh
t face and stay mad at him
for too long
.
After all he wouldn’t leave her side.
She started giggling as
he
grinned at her.

Things were always so eas
ier
when it
i
s
only the two of them
.

When
they
eventually
calmed
their
humored dispute
,
she shut her eyes
again
and
Connor
felt her emotions
cool down a few degrees
.
He
felt her calling
forth
her power and he
did the same
by
matching her energy flow
.
His
eyes
remained
fixed
on her
and
his
senses
focused
on her power
output
. At the same time she used Pressure to lift off the ground
Connor
did the same.

As
they
hovered
just inches above the ground
he
f
elt the energy directing down his
legs
to create a wind capable of flight
.
It was a constant stream of energy
to hover
and sustain his weight
.
To fly forced even more energy through the limbs. For now it remained constant. Recently his
power res
erves have been
growing
vaster
as e
ach day passed. The first time he
popped a balloon using only
solidified
Pressure it took a lot out of
him
, but now it feels like
he
could do this continuously
throughout the day
without becoming tired.

Sarah slowly opened her eyes and looked down. She didn’t jump or flinch
like they
were both expecting
. “At least this time I’m not
too
far from the ground.” She
admitted and
sighed with relief as
they
con
tinued hovering
mere
inches above the grass
.
Connor
could see the grass
flattening and getting
pushing away from the current
s
that came down from his
feet
,
like a helicopter taking off in a grassy field.

They
couldn’t see the wind
they
created,
only
the effects
from the grass
.

“Let’s go a little higher
.” H
er hands instantly tightened into
his
after processing
the confident
request
.
S
he honestly didn’t want to, but she knew she had to learn.
The best way
to overcome i
s always to dive right into the problem. Circumventing it never works.
Sarah knew nothing would happen to her
so
long as
he
was holding onto her.

She nodded while still biting her bottom lip.

Connor
focused more energy to the bottoms of
his
feet
,
where
he
ima
gined two
invisible
jets
of air
coming out from each foot
. When
more energy
began
to flow
down his legs he
gained another foot off the ground.

Sarah looked up and did the same thing and now
flew together at
eye
level. Without saying anything he
went higher and she mimicked
the
movements perfectly. She continuously kept her eyes locked onto
his
as
Connor
could see her maintaining focus
and not succumb to the distraction of the ground
.

When they
reached about twenty feet above t
he ground he
said calmly “Princess
,
keep concentrating, but I want you to look down.” She took a deep breath and slowly
downcast her eyes
. When she saw how high they
were her hands tightened even more, but she didn’t slip up. She
began
forcing herself to
consciously
breathe slowly
as she returned her vision to his
. “Very good, now let’s try moving in the air instead of hovering in one spot.” She resumed biting her bottom lip
a little harder
and her eyes were still
revealing themselves to be
deathly
afraid
.

While watching her
Connor
ma
nipulated the flow of power in his
legs to push more energy
through his
toes
, able to somehow fly and not blow his boots off
. At the moment the flow changed
he
started to gently fl
oat
backwar
ds. Sarah’s eyes were wide as he
intentionally led her with
him
until she becam
e
accustomed
to this new sensation. They
circled the clearing at
their
home twice before
she became comfortable
with the gentle glide
. She asked weakly as
he
flew bac
kwards “How are you managing
to change direction?”

“Concentrate on
pushing more of your energy in a different direction
on your feet
.
Think of it like a car. As you drive you need to turn only slightly by spinning the steering wheel. Slightly turn the source of your energy to alter direction.
” When she understood
Connor
felt her energy change direction a little too quickly. She put too much energy into spinning counterclockwise.

Before she could scream
Connor
pulled her close and swiftly slowed
their rotation. He
stuck
his
right leg
to the side to stop the counter
clockwise motion while
he
forced more energy into
his
left leg
,
which held
their
altitude.
He
put
his
right leg back
down
after
the
rotation stabilized and held
their
position
by simply hovering
.
“I’m sorry.” She said softly into
his
chest.