Valentin I pushed my light into Mel’s body and could feel that the babies were fine, they were a bit distressed, but their heartbeat was normal. But when I pushed my light into Mel’s head, a heavy and dark wall was around it, preventing me from seeing and sensing anything. The only thing I could feel when my light reached her slowly beating heart was raw pain, loneliness, and hopelessness. It felt like a nightmare, one that you couldn’t wake up from. I had to try harder, to push through it. I closed my eyes and focused on the core of my energy, of my powers, my solar plexus. I let the light build in within me, I summoned the little sparks of light vibrating within every single cell of my body. My aura was expanding and my skin was growing warmer, but the wall around Mel’

