L E I L A N I
The drive back to the house was silent. I could feel Lyra's eyes on me, but she didn't say anything. She just drove, her hands gripping the steering wheel, her knuckles white.
When we got back to the house, she led me to the living room.
"Okay," she said, her expression serious. "We need to talk. About what happened at the hospital."
I sank onto the couch, the adrenaline from the day finally starting to wear off. "I know. I… I don't know how I did it. I just… I wanted to see him. And then I wanted him to wake up."
"It's called compulsion," she said. "It's a rare ability, even for our kind. But it's a known trait of the Moon Born. And as for the healing… that's new. But it makes sense. Your blood is a source of power. A source of life. You must have a way to channel it, t
