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sister, who mopped happy tears from her eyes.
“How did you know it was me?” Destiny asked.
Her sister’s mood shifted from relaxed to somber. So sudden, so sharp, it sent a shiver up Destiny’s spine. No more intuitive than any other person, she received a flash of understanding of how Laura’s power must work.
Laura tapped her own chest. “You live in here. Mom and Dad told me you’d been killed, and I saw your body at the morgue, but I still sensed your presence.
“I had a vision. I was on the beach when I got an image of a rainstorm and a wet highway.” Laura took a deep breath and exhaled. “Your fear hit me, rolling from the inside out.” She shuddered. “I ran back to the hotel, packed, and caught a plane. I got the call from Mom and Dad when I landed.”
“I’m sorry.” She should have taken the chance, contacted Laura. But fear and confusion had muddled her common sense.
“I’m happy you’re alive.”
“But you never doubted.”
“Oh no, I doubted. How could I refute the evidence of my own eyes? I saw your body at the mortuary. I worried maybe Mom and Dad had been right about me, and something had gone haywire in my brain.”
“I’m surprised you didn’t sense me when we first arrived at the park.”
“Are you kidding? I was zapped by a cattle prod. But I’d been getting jolts all week, and I no longer could distinguish reality from what I wished to be real.” She plucked at the cardigan’s hem. “I wore your sweater.”
“I noticed,” Destiny said drily. “Didn’t we have a talk about you borrowing my clothes without asking?”
“I thought having an article of your clothing would help me make sense of my feelings. I had them play that silly music you like from that sappy movie.”
“That meant a lot to me.” She ignored the insult to her favorite song and film.
Laura fixed her gaze on Destiny. “So what happened? From your perspective. What do you remember?”
“This is going to sound crazy, but it might have had something to do with the radio. It kept shorting out. When the car went over the embankment, I grabbed Zoe, and I bumped the radio. We got an electrical shock.
“The closest I can compare it to is being pulled from my clothes. A force of some kind tugged me out of my body. Zoe and I passed through each other. ”
“Aura fusion.” Laura nodded.
“Then I slammed into a tight space, which I realize now was Zoe’s body.” She glanced down at herself and patted her hips. “The car flipped, and the door opened. My body got thrown out. I assume Zoe was in it.”
“Maybe.” Laura frowned. “Maybe not. You’re assuming a two-way trade occurred. Maybe it didn’t. Maybe Zoe returned to the energy instead of your body.” She made a sweeping gesture with her hands, then pursed her lips.
“Did you lose consciousness?” Laura asked.
“Yeah. How did you know?”
“The mental relaxation allows the body to accept the new mind, the new essence. Do you recall your thoughts before the radio shock?”
“That I wanted to live.” And that she’d never see Chance again; he’d be lost to her forever. She wanted to live for him, even if she never got more than a casual chat at a party.
“That explains it.” Laura nodded.
“It does?”
“The electromagnetic energy burst fused your auras, and in that moment, the universe granted your wish.”
“Zoe didn’t get her wish.”
“How do you know?”
“She didn’t wish to die!”
“But maybe she wished to move on. Perhaps she’d accomplished all she came to do here.”
“The traveling thing again.”
“That’s what I believe.” Laura nodded. “I’ve sensed Zoe was never quite of this world, that she was a nomad passing through.”
“I wish that was so.”
“Why do you think she had so few connections? No family. Few friends. You and Chance were the only people she had in her life, and you said yourself there was a distance there.”
Destiny shook her head, unconvinced. It all
“How did you know it was me?” Destiny asked.
Her sister’s mood shifted from relaxed to somber. So sudden, so sharp, it sent a shiver up Destiny’s spine. No more intuitive than any other person, she received a flash of understanding of how Laura’s power must work.
Laura tapped her own chest. “You live in here. Mom and Dad told me you’d been killed, and I saw your body at the morgue, but I still sensed your presence.
“I had a vision. I was on the beach when I got an image of a rainstorm and a wet highway.” Laura took a deep breath and exhaled. “Your fear hit me, rolling from the inside out.” She shuddered. “I ran back to the hotel, packed, and caught a plane. I got the call from Mom and Dad when I landed.”
“I’m sorry.” She should have taken the chance, contacted Laura. But fear and confusion had muddled her common sense.
“I’m happy you’re alive.”
“But you never doubted.”
“Oh no, I doubted. How could I refute the evidence of my own eyes? I saw your body at the mortuary. I worried maybe Mom and Dad had been right about me, and something had gone haywire in my brain.”
“I’m surprised you didn’t sense me when we first arrived at the park.”
“Are you kidding? I was zapped by a cattle prod. But I’d been getting jolts all week, and I no longer could distinguish reality from what I wished to be real.” She plucked at the cardigan’s hem. “I wore your sweater.”
“I noticed,” Destiny said drily. “Didn’t we have a talk about you borrowing my clothes without asking?”
“I thought having an article of your clothing would help me make sense of my feelings. I had them play that silly music you like from that sappy movie.”
“That meant a lot to me.” She ignored the insult to her favorite song and film.
Laura fixed her gaze on Destiny. “So what happened? From your perspective. What do you remember?”
“This is going to sound crazy, but it might have had something to do with the radio. It kept shorting out. When the car went over the embankment, I grabbed Zoe, and I bumped the radio. We got an electrical shock.
“The closest I can compare it to is being pulled from my clothes. A force of some kind tugged me out of my body. Zoe and I passed through each other. ”
“Aura fusion.” Laura nodded.
“Then I slammed into a tight space, which I realize now was Zoe’s body.” She glanced down at herself and patted her hips. “The car flipped, and the door opened. My body got thrown out. I assume Zoe was in it.”
“Maybe.” Laura frowned. “Maybe not. You’re assuming a two-way trade occurred. Maybe it didn’t. Maybe Zoe returned to the energy instead of your body.” She made a sweeping gesture with her hands, then pursed her lips.
“Did you lose consciousness?” Laura asked.
“Yeah. How did you know?”
“The mental relaxation allows the body to accept the new mind, the new essence. Do you recall your thoughts before the radio shock?”
“That I wanted to live.” And that she’d never see Chance again; he’d be lost to her forever. She wanted to live for him, even if she never got more than a casual chat at a party.
“That explains it.” Laura nodded.
“It does?”
“The electromagnetic energy burst fused your auras, and in that moment, the universe granted your wish.”
“Zoe didn’t get her wish.”
“How do you know?”
“She didn’t wish to die!”
“But maybe she wished to move on. Perhaps she’d accomplished all she came to do here.”
“The traveling thing again.”
“That’s what I believe.” Laura nodded. “I’ve sensed Zoe was never quite of this world, that she was a nomad passing through.”
“I wish that was so.”
“Why do you think she had so few connections? No family. Few friends. You and Chance were the only people she had in her life, and you said yourself there was a distance there.”
Destiny shook her head, unconvinced. It all
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