Chapter 96: III. Underwater pg. 8

“Does Silver need to be here?”

“Nope, not physically,” Julia said. “Now, the reading puts you through the first stage of a Rise- you won’t be able to move, so get comfy. Don’t worry, I won’t bind you to anything.”

“This is your binding hoop?” Phoebe asked. The cordage laid out on the kitchen floor was more akin to a lopsided oval, and there was a world of difference between it and Connell’s smooth, white ring.

“Mhm! I actually have a few, but I made this one myself.”

Phoebe sat down in the hoop’s approximate center. She wasn't keen on experiencing that choking paralysis again, but she shifted and nodded for Julia to continue. Her eyes squeezed shut as light filled the room, shining out of the windows to rival the afternoon sun. Her breath caught in her throat. Light constricted her, wiggled under her skin. But slowly the buzz died down and she could hear a voice.

“Look!” Julia exclaimed. “I can see your feather.”

Opening her eyes, Phoebe realized that she could, too. The world around her was burning white, but she saw so much.

Her feather was bright inside her, evaporating the last shreds of doubt she clung to. Along with it, strings of energy flowed through her body. They ebbed in and out of her like seafoam atop waves. Phoebe followed them as they spread, realizing in that moment that this had to be the Consumption, and that she and Julia were not alone.

The reading had summoned Silver and Yuli into the void as well, removing all walls between the four of them.

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