Page 15 of Omega Sanctuary

"There's a glowing mouse on the bookcase." I gestured behind Sabine.

She looked over her shoulder. "I don't see anything."

"I've been seeing things for months. Years, if seeing movement out of the corner of my eye was the lead up to seeing glowing ravens fly through the sky."

Sabine stared at me.

"Sometimes I thought I was losing my mind. I convinced myself it was just fatigue, like you said. Or any number of things. For months before you told me I was an omega I thought I was just working too hard."

"The change into an omega isn't overnight."

"Right. So if I've been having these issues my entire life, isn't it possible..." I stopped talking.

Lightning struck me after all.

Sabine's face lit up with the same idea.

"They would have caught your switch in designation," she said. "You were tested when you were ten, twelve, fourteen—"

"At the ceremony," I said. I shivered the room suddenly colder. "But what are they testing exactly?"

"Your energy," Sabine said. "You've seen the wands and rods. You've bled into the cup during the Lunar Ritual."

"The Rituals that I feel magic during, and you said sometimes happened."

"Feeling magic isn't the same as being an omega," Sabine snapped.

"But I am an omega," I snapped back. "Did I suddenly switch or was I an omega this entire time?"

My heart pounded against my chest, and I clenched my teeth.

Sabine's glare melted away. "You couldn't have been. Not this long. We would have caught it when you turned eighteen at the very least."

"The ceremony I was so sick I almost missed?" I wanted to scream.

I wanted to shout, to pick up her fine porcelain teapot and smash it against the wall. Why wasn't this bleedingly obvious? "I don't know what magic your rituals are looking for, but they didn't find my magic." I thumped my chest.

"I'll test your magic," Sabine said, her shoulders straightening up. "Right now. You'll see you don't have spirit magic, and you switched late."

I crossed my arms over my chest. "Should I ask for a second opinion?" The mouse scurried across the room to circle my feet. "Because you sound like you know the answer already."

"It's impartial." Sabine gave me a look. "Now, lay down on the couch."

I laid down on the couch. I got a pillow to prop my head up and tried to relax.

"I'm going to go into your energy," Sabine said, sounding more businesslike. "It's the quickest and easiest way to tell without performing a ritual."

I wrinkled my nose, not liking the sound of that.

But I asked. And I wanted answers.

"Do your best to not block me from your aura—your energy shield. This is advanced magic, but you'll notice when I enter your aura."

Great. I took in a breath and let it out.

"Focus on your breathing. Open up."

For long moments, I laid there, trying to open up. Nothing happened.

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