Chapter 39: Oliver

Aeden glanced at Ruby and me. "Safely if at all possible."

I raised my hand. "We need to help Ruby before we start training. She's going to need her full powers back before we head into a fight with Edius." Aeden agreed. "I think it has to be a group effort. It's going to take all of our powers to fix hers." I nodded at Aeden for him to take over.

Aeden moved Ruby into the middle of the group and then spread us out into a larger circle. "Cassandra, I think you need to make the initial connection. Once you've successfully done so,

the others can join in one by one." His face took on a solemn appearance. "We have to do this slow and methodically. We can't afford to lose another." He moved outside the circle. "You may begin."

"You got this, Cass," I said. I couldn't quite judge her state of mind, but I