Chapter 16
plans shift like tracks in the sand
obscuring all clarity
It took me the better part of twenty minutes to fill them in, despite the fact that they barely spoke more than ten sentences. Every once in a while Ava would flick her eyes at Viv, who would then pepper me with a brief question or request for clarification. It had been a long time since I’d seen my cousins, but I fell back into the rhythm comfortably. The mindspeak might have made some people uncomfortable, but I knew they didn’t do it to hide mean words or talk behind my back. It was just the way they were. Ava and Viv went together like yin and yang – so different, and yet one. Viv had joked that the Arch-mage merely tolerated her, but the fact was that without her Ava would probably never have left home. She was t
