Page 225 of Oracle Returns: Time will Stop

She’d call this bullshit, but Lucian and Avalon were with her, and she was either dreaming or she’d actually done it.

She just wasn’t sure which.

“You did it,” she reassured. “This isn’t a dream. This is how we enter our minds. Next, let’s teach you how to hear them.”

Lucian knew this was the hardest part.

Each one of them had to learn how to get the voices to come into focus. Avalon could do it alone, but he needed Ridge. They would see what Genesis could do.

She’s almost as strong as she needs to be. Will she be as strong as you? No, but Genesis can do this.

He heard her speaking just to him.

You have something up your sleeve. I can feel you pulling strings and calling out to something. What are you doing, Avalon?

She laughed, and he felt it.

I’m breaking Trey and the dead out of the cage. We’re going to need them later to help with this.

Well, shit.

They are in danger if they are out.

Yes, but there was danger if they weren’t. It was a lose-lose at this point, and she knew it. Losing Tori’s dead was a risk, but losing Lucian was worse.

Trust me. Have I ever dropped the ball?

Well, no.

But still…

I don’t want to know because Raven is going to be PISSED if you mess with his spells. I hope he doesn’t find out. He’s calm until he feels like his family isn’t safe.

Her too.

And Lucian was her family.

“Now, close your eyes, Genesis, and focus. Listen for them calling for you. It’s going to sound like buzzing at first, but then, if you move into the sound, it will get clearer. Think of it as tuning a channel on a radio. You have to get it just right.”

She tried, and she could hear the buzzing.

It tickled her ears.

And made her laugh.

“It’s in my head,” she said.

Well, yeah.

They were all in her head. They were standing in water near a waterfall, so this was her realm.

Her place.

“Move into it, like you’re trying to hear what they are saying,” Avalon said. “Go to that place where you can be strong. Go to the place that calls to you.”

And she did.

All around them, the Amazon forest morphed, and it became cold.