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"My grand limbs in an almost feline way "She was born in Indonesia, but her ancestors were all sea-folk over from the Netherlands No one can read weather like a sailor"

The apple left a sweet, slightly tart taste on Katya’s tongue Relishing it, she took another bite "Did your family intermarry with the Indonesian population?"

"Can’t you tell? I’h to whisper of ancestors far from Europe

Katya couldn’t help but sa"

"It’s one of theheld out like a dancer’s, she sht, would only help in her escape "Can I do it in these clothes?"

Tiara ran a critical eye over her jeans and sweatshirt "No, you need lighter gear You can borrow so of mine"

"You’re about a foot taller than I am," Katya pointed out

"And rinned, one hand on a curvy hip

She was, Katya thought, the embodiment of the female ideal so many of the huht and an alht," Tiara said with a nod "I knoe’ll do Strip off the sweatshirt, and get rid of the jeans Sun’s still out, so the T-shirt will do with soht last week"

Katya walked back inside to do as ordered Tiara threw in a pair of leggings a h on her thin frame that she had to use a pin to hold the to h on Tiara Sweeping her own hair into a ponytail, she walked back out to the lawn in her bare feet

As Tiara began to show her the basic stretches, Katya felt her body flow into the rhythht A fewlook and said, "Let’s try so else"

Katya watched as Tiara demonstrated, then copied the deceptively slow move

Tiara nodded "You’ve done this before"

"Yes" Katya flowed into another move "My body remembers, even if my a was considered a valuable for the mind as well as the body

"Awesome That means we can skip the baby stuff"

"I don’t think so" Rubbing at her quivering calf , but it’s not as able as it should be"

Tiara sh to a Class"

"How do you know Iinto position, she ran her body through a slow, basic routine

Beside her, Tiara did a much more complex set of moves "Call it fe sweat roll down her back, "there’s a theory that the first Psy were sihly developed sense of intuition"

"Well, they do say we originated froy banks of her memory, ca Silence," she said, aligning her body until every muscle was in perfect tune, "and the majority of Psy mate only with other Psy, there’s a possibility they’ll evolve in a completely different direction"

"That kind of evolution would take a helluva long time Personally, I don’t think it’ll happen" An easy shrug as she watched Katya complete her set "I think the humanity in Psy will rise to the surface"

As Katya’s feet ca her to the earth, she shook her head "That assumes there’s some humanity still present in the, she knew there wasn’t

Dev was on his way to talk to Katya later that evening when he got a call fro over two hours on a conference call with a nu to panic about the rising rate of incidents

For once, however, the u for a solution Dev refused to accept When he finally hung up, it ith a feeling of exhaustion weighing down his shoulders He wanted to go to Katya, to be with her, even if he couldn’t share the fears that threatened to splinter the Forgotten, but the hour ell past eleven, and according to Tiara, both Tag and Katya had gone to bed around ten, after the tomen chatted over a late dinner Dev wasn’t sure quite what towith almost everyone, but she was also fiercely loyal to Shine