Chapter 22
For the next three days, Rose stayed in her room to prepare for the swap. I didn’t know what exactly that entailed, but she said that she was going to need a lot of saved-up mental strength to pull off our plan.
I left her alone so I could spend every possible second training Auras. Even though we’d found a way to keep them out of the upcoming confrontation, I knew it was just a matter of time before they were all going to have to fight for their lives.
Sunrise to sunset, I taught them everything I knew. Afterward I would run for hours in the forest to keep Light from making me soft, but then dawn would come, and I’d have to train hard using Light to keep the darkness at bay. It was a delicate balance.
“You’ve got to slow down,” Tessa said whenever she saw me. Somehow she se
