Druidess Found (Druidess Trilogy Book 1) by Machelle Hanleigh (interesting novels to read txt) 📕

After a full one and half rotation of the parameter, he stopped and leaned against the smooth wall on the opposite side of the door that was the one and only entrance to the room. Shimani said that the room was protected from portals. No portal could be created inside the room, nor could one be used to enter the room. It was incredible what had been created there, and to think that it may have been one of his ancestors to create that room. He slid to the floor and glanced up at the doomed roof. So much lost over the years and his people didn't even know it. He was only beginning to grasp the magnitude of potential knowledge lost with each new discovery. First, the Ancestral Gateway and now this training cave. He didn't know for certain that either were created by his Ancestors, it just felt that way to him. It was a mystery for another day. His current dilemma came in a much smaller, feminine, annoyingly stubborn package.

His Kaily.

He smiled to himself. What was he going to do with her? Sari and Shimani both believed that she was the one responsible for the destruction of the clearing. Despite his best efforts to adamantly deny the possibility, he couldn't deny it. He saw in her mind when she retrieved her talisman, and he felt the energy of Ki waking inside of her. Although it had only been a day since the clearing, he could feel the energy gaining strength within her center. He needed to put aside his preconceived notions that she possessed no abilities at all. He needed to accept that not only did his Kaily have abilities that required training, but those abilities or the potential far surpassed his own. She would be formidable once trained. He must be the one to train her. There was no other choice. She was emotional and didn't trust others. For some reason, maybe their connection, she trusted him. No one else could train her.

He was afraid for her, and if he were honest with himself, he was a little bit afraid of her, of what she might be capable of when she came into full strength of her abilities. The complete destruction of the clearing was difficult to accept. That anyone, let alone his Kaily, could create that much damage in a single burst of energy was nearly impossible. Then to leave the underside of the trees still green, while the tops were so charred that they crumbled to the touch, was unthinkable. It would mean that the blast burned very hot, traveled fast, and dissipated so fast that nothing caught fire in or around the clearing. Although, that still didn't make sense. That forest should have gone up in a blaze, but it hadn't. It didn't make sense that she possessed abilities. The energy on her world was almost nonexistent from what he experienced. Only the land the Gateway stood on possessed any flow of energy. None of the other places on her world he explored had any flow of energy. The land was bereft of the energy that flowed so freely on Ki and all of the other worlds he explored. Hers and hers alone had no energy flow, except for the very small area around the Gateway. It was strange and he couldn't explain it.

He kept her talisman hidden and kept the knowledge of its location from entering his mind. He had not yet given the talisman to Kaily and was reluctant to ever give it to her again. She didn't seem to miss it either. A part of Moto was surprised she didn't ask for it. That same part was hopeful she never would. Still it was unusual. When a Kahoali obtained their talisman, they were never separated from it. They kept it with them at all times. It became a part of them, not in an actual physical sense, but an extension, connection and conduit to the energy of Ki. All Kahoali, to some degree, could sense and feel the energy of Ki. It was only those that obtained the talismans that could reach for and harness that energy in whatever manner their abilities manifested themselves.

He stirred from where he sat against the wall as he felt Kaily waking up in his mind. He frowned as her feelings of urgency hit him. He rushed to the entrance and opened it, before he stepped out of the room, he forced himself to stop and gain control of his emotions. He needed to stop reacting to her emotions with panic of his own and a slew of other emotions that he would have preferred to not feel. If he couldn't gain control of himself, he had no business trying to train Kaily to have control over her own emotions. He calmed his fear that something was wrong and reached out to her mind as he made his way back to the main part of the cave. It was getting easier to touch her mind and to hear her thoughts with each passing moment they spent together.

He stopped just inside the entrance to the main part of the cave and listened to her thoughts. She was looking for something, but what that something was, had not yet formed in her mind. He stopped himself before reaching telepathically to her. Whatever she looked for agitated her and the thought of asking him about it embarrassed her. He didn't think it would be a good idea to remind her they shared a telepathic connection, at least, not right then. He needed her to be open to him, and not shut down, not that it would happen, but he couldn't take that chance. He stepped into the main room of the caves. "Good Morning."

Kaily glanced over her shoulder at Moto, "Morning." She went back to rummaging through the bags by the chest.

"Can I help you find something?" Moto asked as he sauntered to where she was.

"No."