Read Online Blaize and the Maven: The Energetics Book 1 by Ellen Bard - Free Book Online

of the night before had turned into sadness and resignation this morning. She'd go to Vancouver. And if she was honest with herself, a part of her loved the idea that she would get to push on with her training this fast. Most energetics would need a year or more between trainings to let one side of themselves settle before they started working with the next. Fai must be very confident of her abilities to ask her to start training in her auxiliary this quickly. But Blaize had been looking forward to more of a break from learning, and time to actually use her abilities as a Warrior.  
    “I’m the one going Nix, not you." Blaize bent and touched Nixie's cheek. "It’ll be fine. We’ll call; you’ll visit.”
    Nixie nodded. “I know. But … I’ll miss you.”
    “You managed when we were at university, and then when I lived in Singapore and you were doing your Chakra training.”
    Nixie had taken a different path. She had started as an Adherent directly after leaving university at twenty-one, so she’d completed her training in her dominant Chakra, Svadisthana, the water element, a while ago. She’d decided to take a break before starting her next Chakra training — just as Blaize had intended to do.
    “Yeah, but it’s been a good few years since we’ve both been back here and able to hang out together. I like it. Friends and family close by.” Tears leaked onto Blaize’s leg. As a water element, Nixie had a tendency to express herself with tears — happy and sad — a lot more frequently than Blaize, but Blaize was used to it, and just ran a hand over Nixie’s glossy hair.
    “How do you feel?” Nixie said.
    Blaize lay back and looked up at the sky. “Like I’m not just tired today, but tired more generally. The Manipura training was tough, and I so wanted to do well. I feel like I did, but I also made mistakes. I’d have liked a break before I start studying something new."  
    She paused, looking out at the dense green jungle at the edges of the large plot their houses stood on.
    "I love it here too. I love you, Fai, Marius, the people we know, our friends. The energetics community here and the humans. I love the pace of life, being able to go out trekking in the jungle or lie on the beach. Singapore was so built up, so many people, so many buildings, vehicles. I don’t want to go back to a place where there are that many people.”
    “Cuinn doesn’t live in a busy place; he practically lives out in the wilderness, way outside Vancouver towards the Rockies. It’s pretty beautiful, but the sea is hours away.” Nixie shivered in mock-disgust.  
    Great. He lives in some country backwater. Not much chance of using her Warrior training, or helping out on Rogue runs there.
    “You know him?”
    “Yeah. He’s a Professor at Vancouver University in the human world, and super smart. Some kind of brain science, which helps with his energetic work around the mind. I guess all Ajnas are pretty clever — apart from you, of course.”  
    Blaize smacked Nixie gently on the top of her head.
    “Ouch. Yeah, bright, a thinker. He does a lot of dreamwalks and prophecy work for the Major and the Minor Circle. He’s maybe two hundred? Two twenty? He grew up with Dad. Not married or anything though. Which is not because of what he looks like — he’s pretty hot." Nixie pretended to swoon. "And Maven Adherent pairings often become romantic; it's part of working closely with someone for so long.”
    “Not a factor. You know my views on relationships.”
    “Well, it doesn’t hurt if the face you have to look at every day is attractive right? And anyway, you don't have to marry him, just, you know, have a little fun. ”
    Blaize rolled her eyes but smiled. “Do you ever think about anything apart from sex?”
    “Love?”  
    The energy of Nixie’s two Chakras meant she almost always had a boyfriend. And Nixie was quite happy to audition men for the part for as long as was needed, though she never settled for