Ch. 84 Jesse

Jesse’s P.O.V.

“Again, Jesse. You need to use Umbra more. She will gift you if you can tap into your original shadow weaver self.” Mom told me in a stern tone. She was being her usual training dictator self. I hated being trained by her. She was like this monster when she trained. There was no ending until you got it. We could be here all day with maybe two breaks of perhaps 5 minutes.

“Mom, I think we could all use a break.” Ares tried snapping her back to reality, but her lilac eyes zoned in on me.

“I know you can do it, Jesse. I know you can.” She sighed with defeat, as if she was the one failing and not me.

“I can attempt this a little longer.” I have this deep need to please her, to make her proud, needing to hear her say it too.

“Good girl.” She smiled excitedly at me.

We spent another hour trying. In those last 10 minutes, it had finally clicked for me. Umbra had assumed control, demonstrating to me precisely how to manage the darkness. She told me she can give me something