The Fallen Ones (The Fallen Angels Series Book 1) Read Online Free

side as though she has to consider the
question for a moment before she responds “You know, I don’t exactly know.
After a while we stop measuring time in years. We measure it by events that we
live in our life. Someone can live a lot of years and not experience a lot of
life, it used to happen to us all the time. We would get trapped in our
routines, without attachments to humans we never experienced much loss or felt
the need to rush though life. I would guess it has been around 4,000 years
since I came of age – give or take a hundred.”
    I was finally
beginning to accept that I was different, but I had no idea how different. I
start laughing uncontrollably – mostly to keep from crying. One answer equals a
thousand new questions at the tip of my tongue. She walks over to me and starts
running her hands through my hair in a comforting way I have only ever
experienced with my Mother. “Come now, Ilyana. It is not so bad. It is all new
right now, but when you fully come of age, I promise: you won’t be able to
imagine life differently. There are so many things I never would have experienced
in life if I was limited to mortality, so many people I never could have
helped. Being a Nephilim is a gift, not just to you, but to the world around
you. You are powerful, more powerful than you know. But Ephraim will teach you
to control and direct your powers, and new powers will even emerge. You will
make the world around you a better place as you come to accept who you are
beneath the surface. I for one cannot wait to see who you become.” She smiles
lightly as she stops brushing my hair “One ability that all of us have is the
ability to sense the power in others. When I am around most Angels or Nephilim,
I usually sense it as a quiet, static hum, with you it is a full buzz, when you
move I feel vibrations of power unlike anything I have ever felt, it is
fascinating!”
    I look at her as
I allow her words to settle in “Can I do that? Can I sense power?”
    “You can, you
just may not be sure how yet. We all sense it differently. Some of us feel it
physically, some of us see it - some of us even smell it. Your senses have been
on edge the past few days so you might not have even noticed it yet. But when
we arrive at the Enclave, you will probably be overwhelmed by it and begin to
recognize it almost immediately.”
    “Ahem…” Ephraim.
Even the way he clears his throat is beautiful somehow. “Speaking of the
Enclave, we need to start moving soon. Are you ready?” He looks expectantly
from Alya  to me. I attempt to run my fingers through my hair and they get
stuck in my tangles and then I look down to find my sweatpants and tanktop, too
big for me. Alya catches me looking. “Ephraim, you can’t be serious. We need to
take care of Ilyana. She has had a rough time lately, we can’t take her to the
Enclave feeling so tattered. We need to go get her clothes that fit and a fresh
shower. Let’s take her to Levi’s cabin. She can have a proper shower and I am
sure we can dig up some clothes that fit her more comfortably.” Ephraim
immediately resigns himself to Alya’s request, he doesn’t even seem to mind, he
just nods his head as if he knows this is a fight that he will not win and
responds “Well then, if you are ready, I have the ATV’s waiting, we can get a
move on it so we can make progress before it goes dark outside, we really need
to get her somewhere safe.” Alya nods her head in agreement.
    I look from Alya
to Ephraim. They are talking about me like I am not there and I don’t like it.
“Excuse me, but I thought you said the demons can’t harm me last night, what is
it that you have to keep me safe from?” I think of the monsters and shudder, if
I am more powerful than them, what vile creature should I fear for my safety?
He won’t look me in the eyes “The time for questions was last night, Ilyana.
You should fear nothing, you just have a lot of… power. It needs to be controlled
and I don’t