True Bond -ch.1 Part 5- -cloudlet- Online

“You glow in your sleep,” Kael replied, keeping his voice low. “It’s not exactly subtle.”

Now, as the first true light of morning crept into the room, Kael studied those fading prints. They looked like tiny, scattered clouds— cloudlets —drifting apart before vanishing.

Lian looked up. Her eyes were very old and very young at the same time. “No,” she agreed. “You didn’t.” True Bond -Ch.1 Part 5- -Cloudlet-

“You felt that,” she whispered. It wasn’t a question.

Slowly, he reached out and placed his hand in hers. “You glow in your sleep,” Kael replied, keeping

A ghost of a smile touched her lips, then faded. She sat up slowly, wrapping her arms around her knees. The silver shimmer on her skin dimmed, retreating like tidewater. “It gets worse when I’m tired. Or scared.” She glanced at him sidelong. “Or when I touch someone… open.”

“Are you?”

“Do you want to know why?” she asked. “Really know? Not with words.”

A cloudlet, learning to become a sky.