Chapter 60

I could scarcely sleep for the few days after our argument. The worry and the fear of my power kept me up along with the fact that I didn't sleep in Xaviers and I's room. I slept outside in the tent with Aura and her children. It was always so busy and so I didn't have much time in the day to dwell on my thoughts, thoughts of him. But at night when I lay in my cot in silence with nothing but the darkness I thought of him and I thought of the future. It weighed down on me like a blanket made of steel. My afternoons and evenings were spent with Killian. He knew something had happened between Xavier and I but he didn't ask. Every lesson I tired my hardest to hone my power and get control of it. I tired to project it and extend it and after every lesson I improved but not by much. I still wasn't near where I think I had to be in order to be prepared. Time was not on my side. The Spell casters we're getting closer to our boarders everyday. They had already attacked our first line o