Searching Again II

Elina pulled out of Damonq’s mind abruptly and he felt the loss instantly.

He gripped her forearms and waited until she looked up at him. It took a while and her gaze kept sliding from his.

“Don’t do that. We’re in this together. It doesn’t matter if the sliver is there. We know what Darkness is doing and we’re countering his every move. He can’t make you less than you are. He simply can’t.”

“He knows what we’re doing. Those moments we talk, or you’re…” She broke off, shaking her head. “If I leave the house, he’s watching the children. My friends. You. He can hear what you say to one another. What we say to each other.” Her voice broke.

His heart clenched hard in his chest. “That’s not the way it works, Elina. Just because he put a slice of himself into you, or someone else, that doesn’t mean he knows what everyone is doing. He would have to reach for it. Leave his body and go into the splinter. That’s always dangerous to him. Just as when we’re healing someone, the body is unprotecte