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She held her breath, sure Joyce wouldn’t tell her But Joyce shrugged and said, "His specialty is astral projection, actually"

Let your ht It was Lewis’s phrase So Mac was responsible for the astral projections and psychic attacks against theures," she blurted before she thought "And one of the the clock radio by the bedside and answered iuide theet back into their bodies But anybody can do astral projection if they have the power of the crys-" She broke off so quickly her little white teeth actually snapped shut Then she said, "Bed, Kaitlyn It’s way past time"

I knew they used the crystal to project theht I saw it beside their astral forms But she didn’t tell Joyce She said, "Okay, but are you going to tell o to bed"

And that was all Kaitlyn could get out of her

Upstairs, Kaitlyn could hear the voices in Gabriel’s room Gabriel and Frost and Renny? Gabriel and Frost? There was no way to find out

"Too bad I can’t do astral projection," she muttered

Lydia was asleep, of course, so there was no chance to talk to her And no way to try out the secret panel downstairs-it was directly across from Joyce’s room

Nothing to do, then, but go to sleepbut it took her a long tiht out of Gabriel’s room

Gabriel cainto his T-shirt He looked particularly handso way His hair was very wavy, as if soh it to release the curl, his eyes were hooded and lazy and there was a faint smile of satisfaction on his lips

Kaitlyn discovered that she wanted to kill hi hi, comic-book sort of way In a way that would make splinters of bone fly and splatter the walls with blood

His expression changed very slightly when he saw her standing there His eyes narrowed and his aze stonily and walked by her without speaking

"Today you’ll do so," Joyce said to Kaitlyn after breakfast

But before starting with Kait, Joyce settled the other psychics in Testing had changed since the old days, Kaitlyn thought Then, Joyce’s experi you could report in a journal article Now, everything see swim trunks full of holes, was led toward the back lab with the isolation tank, and Kait heard Joyce saying, "Just take a look inside that safe in the city, see if the papers are there Then try the long-distance job, check out that furnace"

Astral projection for felons, Kait thought Is that how they knew the twentycabinet? But how did they know to look in a filing cabinet in the first place?

Renny was practicing his PK, but not on a randoenerator as Lewis had done He had a collection of locks in front of hira anything, he was ht Well, that makes sense He needs to knohat part of the lock to push with his e about locks, just the power to poke around inside the able to open the combination lock on the crystal-wherever the crystal was Kaitlyn would bet her last di device, soram for Which ure out the eight nuirl Take it easy You’ve got to find that crystal first

As soon as she’d thought it, Kaitlyn shifted nervously Gabriel and Frost were sitting across the roo a pile of CDs and

she couldn’t tell anything unless she touched a person Besides, she seerungy today, in an orange top cut so low that you could ski down the bare skin in front Her hair had returned to its usual uncoerine

"What are you doing?" Kait asked Bri, as a diversion

Bri glanced up "Can’t you tell?"

She was holding a plumb bob on its line above a map The plumb bob and line looked just like what Kaitlyn’s father had used to deter freely from a cord The map was upside down to Kaitlyn and she could only ," Bri said She gave a boyish grin at Kait’s surprise

"I thought you used a forked stick for dowsing"

"No, stupid That’s for dowsing for water or gold or sos that are far away, and you can do it for anything"

"Oh" As Kaitlyn watched, the plu in circles over a section of the ot to do is think of what you’re looking for Sasha used to do the other kind of dowsing, only he didn’t use a stick He used coat hangers shaped like Is"

"Sasha?"

"Oh, yeah You never hter "He was blond and pretty cute, critty pute Cute"

"Was he one of Mr Z’s first students?" Kaitlyn asked quickly "Part of the pilot study, like you?" Bri seee of one of those bizarre attacks which always ended in her repeating nonsense words until it drove everyone crazy

"Yeah, hi was a bike uy Both terrific psychics"

"But what happened to them? Are they dead?"

"Huh? They-" Suddenly Bri’s face turned cold, as if soht switch inside her She looked up at Kait and her face was hard "Yeah, they’re dead," she said "Sasha and Parte King You wannaout of the back lab Kaitlyndepressed

The dark psychics were nicer to her now, sure, but it was like a geyser pool bubbling between eruptions

Ready to go off in her face at any

"That’s the volunteers-would you get the around with her clipboard

"Frost, I’ to have you do so to start you with so"

She sat Kaitlyn in a carrel with a photograph in front of her It was an eight-by-ten glossy of a wall safe

"I want you to concentrate on the picture and draw anything that coht be in the safe, okay?"

"Okay," Kaitlyn said, concealing a surge of rebellion This was not legiti her taste for larceny

"I’ a piece of e was one of alarm, and Kait couldn’t hide it "An electrode over htly as she could

"You knohat it is Since you haven’t been exposed to the big crystal, we’ll use this to enhance your powers"

"Well, why don’t you exposecrystal, then?" Kait asked recklessly "Those little chips give me a headache, and-"

"Sorry, that’s up to Mr Zetes, and he doesn’t want you anywhere near it Now, hold still" Joyce’s tone said she’d had enough Her eyes had gone as hard as ges before slapping the tape on Kait’s forehead

Kait felt the piece of crystal cold against her skin It was bigger than the piece Joyce had used in the old days,to conceal it This one felt the size of a quarter

Knohere it ca the tape off But then she saw Gabriel in the doorway, looking sardonic and aainst the crystal, do you? After all, you’re one of us

Kaitlyn shot back, I’el I’et it

Kaitlyn left the tape alone

But she didn’t want to help Joyce with the safe She stared at the photograph, then shut her eyes and just scribbled, taking the time to think

She understood no the dark psychics had attacked theure out where they were Then Jackal Mac guided their astral forht location After that, they could assault their victi-distance PK Si near the-distance crime wave, to help them visualize some safe to break into

Wait a minute

If she could see into a safe, why not a room? Why not try to visualize the secret rooroped for a new piece of paper She’d never tried to visualize a specific place before, but the re process was old hat by now Stretch out and let your thoughts drift

Block out any external noises Let the darkness take you down

And now, think of the secret roo up to the door, visualize that hallway lit by fluorescent greenish light Walk up to the doorand let the darkness take you

Her hand began to cra over the paper,of its own accord while Kaitlyn floated in darkness Sketching fluidly, easily Kaitlyn held her breath and tried not to be anxious, tried not to think or feel anything

Okay, slowing down-is it done yet? Can I look?

She couldn’t resist the temptation One eye opened, then both were open and wide Chills swept over her, as she stared, not at the piece of paper her hand was still working on, but at the first one, the one that was supposed to be only scribbles

Oh, God, what is it? What have I done?

It wasn’t her usual style It was cartoonish, but gruesome cartoonish, like the new breed of coht be a picture of her beating Gabriel to death with a rolling pin

But those long tear-shaped things flying out at the edges were flames Flames, fire It was a fireball or an explosion, circular, with s outward like ripples on a pond

And in the center was a stick figure of a person Like Itchy the cat after Scratchy hits hirotesque dance

Ha, ha