Morgan exhales slowly.
Asher’s eyelids droop.
He’s exhausted.
Within seconds he’s asleep again.
Normal sleep.
No glow.
No field spike.
Just a child.
We move to the sitting room.
The silence is heavy.
“She reached him through resonance echo,” Morgan says quietly. “The spike earlier today left an energetic residue. She followed it.”
“So now she can access him whenever she wants?” Kade’s voice is dangerous.
“No. Not whenever. Only when field thresholds rise. Tonight she exploited instability from the earlier surge.”
“Then we lower thresholds permanently,” Kade snaps.
“It’s not that simple.”
I sit slowly.
“She’s not trying to harm him.”
All three of them turn toward me.
“She said she was teaching.”
“Manipulating,” Thorne corrects.
“No.” I shake my head. “If she wanted to hu
