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Valentina could easily discern the searching eyes which met with her the moment that Thea turned her head. The way she peered through those brilliant feminine lashes was a telltale sign of allure; of attraction. It wasn't as if she had been trying to avoid such an outcome, rather she was counting on it. While she wanted to talk to her sister, try to smooth things out with her - she also wanted to draw her in, relax her, make her feel a little more at ease. While her posture did nothing to show any sort of relaxation or trust, Val knew that was simply how Thea was. She could barely trust the ground beneath her feet, and really, how could the long-haired girl blame her? She lived a life in which every move she made could lead to another …show more content…

You don't accumulate this sort of wealth overnight, nor do you gain the sort of network that she had in just two years. No, it simply wasn't possible. But then how... how was Valentina still so young? It lie in their blood, but it also had a lot to do with the distortion of time and space in a majority of the places she visited.

Scientists had a theory, a theory that dictated that if an astronaut were to spend ten years out in space, revolving the Earth from the furthest distance without leaving the gravitational pole, that they would age those ten years, while the people back down on Earth would age maybe fifteen, twenty years or more. It had a good deal to do with how gravity effected the yeast in the human body for one, but it also had to do with the speed at which one traveled in relation to the Earth.

'If you travel at the speed of light, the years will melt away into minutes. Eons will become centuries, and centuries... mere months.' Yule, a Waybearer - a guardian of time - explained this to her once. 'But you,' continued the omniscient being, 'you are special. If you move at the speed of light, you will not age at all.' Why... Why not?! What if I want to?! Her questions... They were answered with a terrible knowledge that she wished she'd never, ever fallen victim to. 'You are not human. Your father, your sister -- you. You are more... so much more than you could ever even know. You have the rest of time itself to understand what you are, but I will

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