What?”
I’d guessed it, but hearing Nyx confirm it twits something inside my chest.
“You can sense new life about to begin, while Xena senses a life when it’s about to end” Nyx says.
“So, anything or anyone about to die, she feels that?”
“Yes.”
I press a hand on my chest, feeling as if a heavy weight has been placed there.
Beneath the fear I felt at discovering my new powers, there was also a kind of excitement. Being able to sense life, like Nyx said, brings happiness and joy; I can’t imagine what being able to sense someone is about to die feels like.
No one wants to know their loved one is about to die, now imagine being able to sense anything or anyone about to die?
“Xena hated her powers.” Nyx voice cuts through my thoughts. “She said it felt like a curse.”
And I can imagine w
