#Chapter 101 - Crush

I just stare at Tony, baffled. “You’re real,” I whisper. “I mean, only kind of,” he says back, lifting his face up to the water, apparently relishing the feel of it against his skin. “I think only conceptually, if that makes sense.” “It doesn’t,” I growl, closing my eyes and rubbing my hand over my nose, which still aches. God, is it seriously broken? I hear movement and open my eyes to see Anton moving to sit next to me on the floor, his back too against the glass wall of the shower. “Can’t you heal that up?” he asks. I just look at him like he’s crazy. “June,” Anton says, smiling and laughing at me a little, reaching out probably to wipe the blood off of my face. I flinch away, scowling. “I think you have been practicing using your powers for a while now – but what you’ve been doing is just…mimicking the magic you’ve seen other people use.” “Get to the point, Anton,” I mutter, closing my eyes again against the pain. “You mimicked Cora’s weather magic, and Ariel’s flame,