Chapter 37

“Me too,” he says, and scrunches his nose up, again. “I’ve heard them for a few days, but I thought I was going crazy, but then I heard your voice, and I tried to talk to the voices, and you responded to me! And I… I was told mindlinking takes much more skill than that, so I just assumed I was going crazy.”

“I thought I was too, until I managed to put two and two together,” I say, smiling a little at the fact that we’re on the same page, finally.

“You mentioned your birthmark that day we met,” he says, clearing his throat a little, “uh, can I see it?”

I nod at him, and get up from my seat. I pull Azaire’s jacket and t-shirt up, and pull the hem of my pajama pants down a little, before turning around to show him the incomplete circle on the side of my hip. I see his hands ball into fists, and he reaches up to pull the collar of his black