Page 206 of Gift from the Source
Be free. Protect our family and the people who fight by our side.
I won’t restrict you anymore.
My outstretched palms glow as though I’m holding two stars in my hands. Warmth rushes through me from head to toe and I sigh at the sensation.
I gaze at the low morning sunrise that’s shedding light all around.
Multiply.
A grunt falls through my lips when my gift bursts out of me. Panic tries to rear its head, but I shove it down and let my blessing run free.
My first replica forms beside me.
Then he burst into two. Those two into four.
And so on until I strain to hold the forms of all thirty-four of them.
Not quite an army, but these soldiers won’t die. If they’re cut down, I’ll command them to rise again.
Go. Protect them.
“Now, Xander,” I shout.
Those thirty-four of me turn into hundreds.
There’s the army.
The ones that run through me dissolve on impact, but more keep coming. They won’t be any help whatsoever in fighting, but they’ll be the distraction we need to catch up.
My replicas wipe out the first group heading straight for my mom. She and my dads flinch for a moment, and I sigh when I see Dyce’s form bouncing around them.
Her eyes whip around and immediately find the real me.
A mother always knows.
The smile on her face is short-lived, but the nod she gives me is full of pride.
“Draken, burn their army from the back,”I command.
His resounding roar has me smirking. The elements shot in the sky at him can’t penetrate his scales or the flames licking across his body.
There’s nothing they can do about the beast in the clouds.
I send fifteen of my replicas to join Tillman and protect Oakly.
From the time I lost my concentration on him until now, I barely can see his head.
He’s fighting viciously right now, but they’re completely surrounded.
There’s a united shift in energy.
For the first time since our entire front line was flung all over the place then pounced on while we got our shit back together, we push forward.
I weave in and out of light.
I cut down any I come across while commanding my gift that’s spread out all over the place.
Each time one of me falls, my gift returns to my chest, and I send it right back out.
