THELMA

I woke up screaming. Xavier bolted upright beside me, grabbing my shoulders. "Thelma! What's wrong?"

But I couldn't answer. Couldn't breathe. Because through the twin bond, I was experiencing what Theo experienced. Everything.

Every heartbeat on Earth, seven billion of them, pulsing in a chaotic rhythm. Every thought, a trillion fragments of consciousness all thinking simultaneously. Every sensation, pain and pleasure and temperature and texture, all at once from everywhere.

It lasted only three seconds before my human mind shut down the connection, unable to process infinity. But those three seconds felt like drowning in an ocean of existence.

"I felt him," I gasped when I could speak again....