18: World Walkers: Kankirin: Lexi’s Story – Part 1

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This entry is part 7 of 47 in the The World Walkers collection

It was the sensation of eyes on her that woke Lexi up, and a warm arm wrapped around her waist. When she’d gone to sleep she’d expected to wake up alone in her own bed, the same way she had every other night she’d visited him. Her first feeling was utter terror as she rolled over to look at Ragnar. Using his free hand he brushed some hair off her face before leaning down to kiss her. Shaking her head she pulled away, not wanting him to kiss her until she had some idea what was going on, if at all.

Ragnar raised an eyebrow. “You didn’t seriously expect me to let you leave again.”

“That drink…”

“I made sure that you’ll never leave my side again.” Softly he pressed a kiss on Lexi’s cheek. “When I first saw you I knew that you were the one for me and I planned on keeping you from the beginning. It just took me some time to make the potion.”

“Send me home.”

“Even if I could I wouldn’t.”

Lexi ran a hand through her hair, trying to think. “My family’s going to be worried about me. I disappeared from my bed in the middle of the night and that’s not normal.”

“There’s nothing I can do about that.” Ragnar shrugged. “I can’t send you home because the potion is irreversible and I have no idea what world you came from. Working with dreams the way I do can be a little nebulous.”

“I’m from Earth.” Lexi stared at the wall beside his head, trying to calm herself down, but it really wasn’t working. “Is there any way I can send a message to my family to let them know I’m safe?”

“Not that I know of.” Ragnar tightened his arm around her waist, pulling her flush against his body. “I don’t see why it matters. We’re together now, permanently.”

“I get that we’re together.” Lexi shook her head. “You should have asked me.”

“What would you have said?”

All Lexi could think about was the family, the friends, and the life she had left behind, and eventually she replied, “I would have said no.”

“That was why I didn’t ask. No isn’t an answer I would have accepted from you, because you belong with me.” Ragnar smiled. “One day you’ll thank me for this.”

“I doubt it.”

“This world is beautiful,” he said, carrying on as though Lexi hadn’t spoken. “It’s much nicer than Earth and I’ll teach you how to dreamwalk.”

“Is what you did normal?”

“Some dreamwalkers think that what I did is immoral. They wouldn’t bring someone through from another world unless the other person asked them to and even then they wouldn’t definitely agree to it. The rest would have done the same thing I did. I know a couple of dreamwalkers who brought their soulmate through from another world.”

“You think I’m your soulmate?”

“I know you’re my soulmate. If you weren’t the potion wouldn’t have worked and you’d have gone back to your world last night. This is where you’re meant to be.”

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.

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Another stalker-antagonist, though. Yeesh. I'd be interested in seeing more of this if it involves bursting his little bubble with an ice pick. Also good would be making Lexi into a hera who walks the world dissuading people from yanking other folks out of their lives against their will.