Chapter 333: 2-6

Yes, but if you think of not letting that barrier down – “How do I block it?” “Your bond, think of it as a tether, an actual rope, you should be able to locate it by feeling out. It’s going to be like touching a mass but not seeing. Just close your eyes and concentrate on the connection you feel,” doing as he said I closed my eyes, trying to find what he was taking about, but I wasn’t getting anything. “Inhale and exhale, try to remain calm, search for that pull you felt yesterday when you knew she was your mate,” my eyes flew opened when after a few moments I finally felt the bond, “You have it?” I nodded. “All you have to do is put a mute on it, like the television is playing, but on mute. You aren’t turning it off, just-” “Put it in the background?” I said when I did just that. With a smile, “okay,” I nodded. “When you want to put it back on, just find the connection and unmute.” I nodded. “Every time I train or fight I should put it up? So Kayla won’t feel hurt? Will I feel it if she’s hurt?” He looked at me, right into my eyes, “yes…” we both continued walking, but my mind was on Kayla, and this new information. I did not ask any questions, but going to an area on the island I had yet been there was a smaller – than our place on the island – sized house. Instead of going to the porch, Lux led me around the side, into his backyard. Unlike all the others, his seemed to be stone, and the further back the more that was exposed. A pool – unlike the ones I’ve seen on the island or even back home in Middleburg was actually – cut into hard concrete, the back porch overlooking the pool. “Where does the water come from?” I blurted out curiously, pointing to the pool, trying to figure it out for myself. Lux chuckled and he walked over to the railing almost pointing to a small pad with different switched, three black and underneath them, one red and the other green. Tapping the green, there was a rough shifting sound, loud enough for me to seek out the direction in which it came. To the left of the pool, I walked towards the right to see, a circle maybe 3 feet in diameter near the bottom open up and all the water, drained out, emptying the pool in less that three or so minutes. Pressing the first black button, the hole closed, and he immediately pressed the red, and a hole the same size to the right of me opened, water rushing instantly, filling to the same level the water was before and he closed it. “How? Where does the water go?” I gaped. “There is a river that passes underground up here before it appears lower down towards the others, I installed a pipe and filter over there and ran it here, and then the water, when released from the left goes back to the stream.” “How deep is it? I mean it looks deep in that area,” I pointed the rectangular closest to the wall. It had to be at least ten feet deep. “A little over twelve feet.” His house from the outside looked like it could probably fit inside the space he had dug out for the pool, making me wonder, “Have you found your mate?” I asked finally looking away from the pool back to his face. “Not yet, I’ve been on this island – I was working with Chelsea’s adoptive father and then maybe four years ago I had to stop leaving the island, she wasn’t here,” he said in no particular tone. For some reason I thought of Farrah and Sage, Kiley’s little twin sisters. They were born on the island and had never left either. When we were all playing together they said they always wanted to leave the island, and I guess I could understand, especially when Clover and River had said that they missed a few things – mostly family in the real world. But now that I had met Kayla, I wished she was born on this island too, and not the other way. My lips starts to shake, and I opened my mouth a few times but I just couldn’t make the thoughts in my head settle to say anything back to Lux. “You can talk to me kid, I know you have Chelsea and Oakley and your aunt and uncle but you can talk to me too,” Lux offers. I look away, “I just wish that Kayla and all her brothers and sisters were born here instead. It’s not just because she’s mine. I hate what happened to Chelsea too, and I hate how Oakley felt back home. It’s not so bad here,” I look out then up at the blue, clear skies. “You know… you’re pretty smart for a kid,” he joked. I think. “Yeah… It’s because of Oakley,” I replied. His face turns serious, “No, it’s not because of that Ben, you are a pretty great little guy. The way Oakley talks about you, the way you were always on her side, no matter what, and I bet that’s why you was to be Kayla’s mate. We don’t know why some things like this happen, but when they do, we just accept it. And you’ve done so much accepting since you’ve come here and even before then.” He goes to sit down on one of his lounge chairs, I follow to the other, “How are you feeling?”