When I heard Ares, it was as if he was standing right beside me. His words were so clear in my mind that I would not believe he had not spoken them aloud if he was not on the other side of the river.
It was a shock - I had never considered the idea I might be able to read thoughts like that. I didn’t know what skills my own family had, but I had never exhibited any signs that I might be able to do anything like that, and I had never thought about the possibility.
Even after I heard Ares it seemed unreal. Like it was never supposed to happen, but through some cosmic fluke I caught a glimpse of his thoughts.
I didn’t expect it to happen again. I thought that it was a one-time thing, and that no matter how hard Ares tried, I would not ever learn to master that skill. It wasn’t a skill I w
