Chapter Six: A Little Adjustment

In truth, Lisa hadn’t been linked to someone for years, so it happening actually surprised her a little. She unfurled her wings.

Luke’s thoughts started to come through clearer and louder. Most were about her. Others were about his relationship with his aunt and uncle. Some were about Fixer and the others and how they tease him because he always had been fixated on traveling in space.

Well, maybe she could help with that, once the Shuttle was fixed.

“What’s happening?” Luke asked softly, covering his ears as the effect of Lisa’s enhanced hearing overwhelmed him. There were so many sounds around Anchorhead that it could become painful to him if she didn’t help.

She put her hands on his over his ears and spoke clearly to him. “Luke, look at me. Listen to me…focus on my voice.”

He tried to lift his head to do as she asked, but found it very difficult under the onslaught of the sounds.

“Luke, focus on my voice. Listen to me. Forget everything else you’re hearing and single my voice out. Don’t worry about anything else except my voice. Focus, Luke.”

Slowly, Luke lifted his head and locked eyes with her, breathing hard.

“Focus.” Lisa told him firmly. “Focus on my voice. It will pass. Trust me.”

His breathing began to slow as the sounds diminished to a more tolerable level for him.

“What was that?” he asked, breathless, as he lowered his hands.

She held his hands. “This is what happens when I fall in love with someone who has mutual feelings and we kiss. We’ve become linked. You were hearing what I normally do.”

“How do you handle it?” he asked.

“Lots of practice.”

“It’s like…you hear everything. I heard your feathers as you moved your wings.”

Lisa nodded. At least he was accepting of it. “What else?”

He paused. “I hear…and I feel…” He pressed a hand to the right side of his chest. “No, that doesn’t make sense…I feel like…my heart…I can’t explain it.”

She understood completely and brought his hand to her chest. “I have two hearts. You’re feeling my second heart beating next to yours. And my other and yours beat in synch.” She smiled. “If there’s anything wrong with either of us, the other will be the first to know. And then there’s the best part about the link.”

Luke blinked. “What’s that?”

We can speak telepathically to each other.

His eyes widened. “How?”

Concentrate. Think of something and send it to me.

She felt him try, however, telepathic communication was harder than it seemed.

Think at me, she instructed.

Like this?

Lisa grinned. “You caught on fast. It gets even easier with practice.”

“I’ve never been connected like this to anyone. You’re incredible.”

She simply smiled. “I know.”

End chapter six.

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