Family

With a final surge of will, River pictured the typical warmth of the restaurant kitchen – the worn wooden floor, the scent of frying onions and projected her telepathic ability there.

She could remember Tara’s words back in the woods with the rogues; find an emotion within you to connect to and bend it to your will.

The mere recollecting Tara’s voice or picturing the restaurant that now held memories that would be nothing but bad was enough to channel emotions within her.

She would rather go somewhere else, but there was nowhere else to go but the restaurant. Hence, she set her sentimentality aside and decided to focus on the telepathic spell.

The air then began to shimmer, distorting the image of the chamber before them. Then, with a pop and a rush of dizziness, the world disbanded around them.

They landed with a thud on the cool tile floor of the living quarters inside the restaurant. Disoriented and gasping for breath, River slumped against the wall with Rain cradled protective