Chapter 41: Meetings of Desirous Minds, Part II JACE I stood standing in front of another one of Raven’s cloaks. This time, it was a massive patch of aralia spinosa. I walked along the perimeter of it with the oddest sensation of warmth flowing through my body. It was so comforting. Unlike the incident at the cottage, this wasn’t overpowering…more like a blanket of comfort and closeness. I could feel Raven’s close-proximity—an unusual and alarming welcoming feeling, overwhelming relief to know I was near her—just as I could visualize her closeness with a soft pink aura lightly emitting from the thorns. Again, very different from last time, yet confusing and bewildering to me down to my core. Whatever this connection was between us…at least it wasn’t affecting me as savagely

