Elemental Summoner 1 D. Levesque (beach read .txt) 📖

“Context?” Bridget asks me, perplexed.

“Yes! You said you have context, from my God, not the experience. What do you get when I say molecular level?” I ask her eagerly. Please let this work!

She frowns at first, but then Bridget’s face lights up. “I know what it means! It’s looking at the molecular level of your genes! I didn’t understand it before when you kept saying germs, but somehow, now I do!”

“I guess you needed certain trigger words to come together. All right, let’s try this. Though I’m not sure what power I should be using. Since it’s my blood, and it’s living, I would say water. That sound about right to you?” I ask her.

“I have no clue!” she says, but she is grinning and she moves closer to me, her knees touching me.

“I don’t get it?” Leeha asks in a confused voice.

“So, what I am going to do is get Bridget to look at the inside of my body where the energy is seeping. It’s similar to what I said before about germs. She is going to check my genes, which are just as small as germs—the tiny living version of myself,” I explain to her. “Sorry,” I say, blushing. “I wish I could explain it better, but once I teach you more English, I hope it will make more sense.”

Leeha puts a hand on my leg and says, “As long as we figure out what is going on with you, Alex, I am good with not fully understanding. I just want to make sure that what is happening to you isn’t killing you.”

“Agreed, I don’t want to die either,” I tell her.

I really hope that with Bridget I can find out and make sure that what is leaking out isn’t dangerous, so I don’t end up dying from radiation poisoning or cancer or something.

“Water. Go on a molecular level and see what is happening to my body where the energy is leaking out of my Chakra.” I tell Bridget.

Bridget quickly changes into water. She lifts her hand and places it against my forehead, and then she closes her eyes. We both sit like that for what feels like a good ten minutes. After a while my back starts to hurt, but I don’t dare move, in case Bridget’s finger on my forehead is her only connection. Then, when I feel I can’t hold still anymore, she blinks her water eyes and opens them, and looks at me in shock.

“Alex!” she says in wonder. “The changes that are happening are amazing!”

Chapter Thirty-Two

I look at Bridget in dismay. So it is changing me? “How?” I ask her quickly and with worry in my voice.

“I am not sure,” she says, her eyes still wide with wonder. “It’s changing your cells, so they are stronger. I don’t even know what that means! I just know what to tell you!” she says, but her voice is tinged with frustration now.

“I wonder if it’s rebuilding my cells to be stronger in order to handle the extra power? Or maybe it’s getting me ready to handle a different type of energy,” I say, thinking out loud.

“You think that it’s doing this so that you can handle whatever this new energy will be when you open this second Chakra?” Leeha says.

I turn to her and nod slowly. “I mean, it makes sense. If the energy after the second Chakra breaks is too powerful, my body, as it currently is, might not be able to handle it, and it might kill me. Maybe, that is what the slow seepage of this power into my body is doing; it’s conditioning me. For example, all the running I have been doing in spurts with you two has made it so that I can run longer. Maybe the slow seepage of this energy into my body is training me?”

“It would make sense,” Leeha says thoughtfully. “So, do we need to worry about it in the immediate?”

I turn to Bridget, who has a frown on her face. “No. I think Alex will be fine in the immediate. Though, I would suggest he does not use his healing powers or that he uses them sparingly until he can get his body used to that energy.”

“Agreed,” Leeha says before I can say anything. She looks at me hard and says passionately, “Alex, I just got you. I am not about to lose you already!”

“Hey, I am one hundred percent on board on not using my healing since it means I am not getting hurt,” I say with a chuckle.

“That’s the hard part. We don’t know, Alex, if healing will increase the rate of your cells changing, or if letting it change you at its current pace will be enough,” Bridget says with sadness.

“Hey,” I tell her, putting a hand on her leg. “This isn’t your fault. Leeha, what’s the plan for today?” While I know they are both worried for me, worrying myself sick about this isn’t going to help me. The thing to do is to move on.

“Well, we are about a day’s journey from the Elders,” Leeha says. “I saw the mountains last night through the break in the trees. We can either push and get there tonight before midnight, or camp somewhere for one more night and push on in the morning, which will get us there before noon,” she says.

“I vote another night with a hot tub!” shouts Bridget excitedly.

I can’t help but laugh, and so does Leeha. “I vote the same thing,” I say out loud.

“Agreed, another night with a hot tub would be nice,” Leeha says with a grin. “Though, you should probably hide that one when we leave,” she says, pointing to the still steaming hot tub.

“Or, we can clean up before we head out,” I tell her, with a grin on my face. Leeha looks at the hot tub longingly, torn between making time, and taking a soak.

“Well,” she finally says, getting up and undressing quickly, “the hot water will loosen the muscles for