"Doesn't that fire gift of hers appear when she's afraid?" Jake asked, brow furrowed as he stared at the small screen. "Could it be that?"
"It could be," Michael agreed, "but it shouldn't be. That room is chock full of spells that prevent magic and psychic gifts happening within its four walls."
Jake raised an eyebrow. "So how did Jon shapeshift?"
"That's personal magic—magic from the soul," Camille said. "Totally different thing altogether."
"So you can make a spell to target or confine one type of magic and not the other?"
"You can make a spell to do anything you want, as long as you've got the skill and the time." Camille glanced at Michael. "So what's she afraid of?"
"I don't know."
"Yet you can sense her fear?"
"Yes."
Camille raised a silver eyebrow. "Another thing that should not be possible. Interesting." It certainly was. If he could feel Nikki's emotions through all the barriers in that room, then their connection went far deeper than anyone had realized. Maybe Seline was right. She'd suggested that when he'd shared his life force with Nikki, more than a binding of minds had happened. Maybe it was a merging, one of hearts and souls. It would certainly explain why they were beginning to share some of their gifts—why his kinetic powers had gone off the scale, and why she now had night vision similar to his infrared vampire vision. And why she could now sense the nonhuman as well as he could. But it didn't explain why both of them were developing new psi gifts, such as clairvoyance and precognition.
"Temperature is still going up," Jake noted into the silence. Camille glanced at Michael. "You want me to stop it?"
"Not yet." Not when there wasn't any real reason to.
Besides, he very much wanted to see her in her wedding dress. Very much wanted to watch her expressive amber eyes as he said I do .
If he stopped this test, their wedding would be put off. Seline had insisted on that, stating it was a waste of time and effort if they stopped Nikki's training halfway through just so the two of them could get hitched.
It was an insistence that worried him. He'd known Seline a very long time. There was something else behind her push to train Nikki, something the old witch wasn't telling him. Actually, she wasn't telling him much at all at the moment, not even where she was currently hiding. That in itself suggested that whatever she saw happening involved him in some way—and that he could very well be a threat to her safety.