Page 26 (1/2)

Alison shook her head

"Fiona," Jean-Pierre called from his sentinel position by the door "I do not o by and I wish to speak with him Will you excuse ed with Alison that she’d forgotten he was there

"I shall return in but a few moments"

"Fine That’s fine" She watched hih her heart left with hi time She looked back at Alison, who sht in her eye "What?" Fiona asked

Alison shook her head "No, I shouldn’t say anything"

"Okay, now you really have to tell ether for a little over a year now but I re, isn’t it?"

"Co him, or send him to Siberia … per as I a with him, and now--" She almost blurted out that they’d just had sex, but she really didn’t want that known around Militia HQ or anywhere else

Alison said, "I have to say it would go a lot easier on all us girls if those men were just a little less built"

"Oh, areat, too, like winning the lottery"

Fiona nodded She looked away from Alison and tried to breathe because for just aon her back on Jean-Pierre’s worktable, and his tongue working her over

When a shiver traveled straight through her body, she sed hard and ordered her mind She blinked several times then forced her attention back to Alison and all the critical aze narrowed "Fiona, what if it’s not telepathy at all"

"What do you ether, rather than atte to explain it Do you trust me?"

"Absolutely"

Alison nodded "Good Okay, this ti all the way inside ive it a shot, okay?"

Fiona nodded "Got it" She closed her eyes and worked her telepathy until once ht next to Alison

She pushed, as though trying to push her being inside Alison’s being, but nothing happened Are you shielding? Fiona sent

No My shields are flat on the floor

Fiona tried again, but nothing happened

She pulled back mentally and once more opened her eyes "I don’t think that’s it In fact, I think it would be a very dangerous thing if soain, for lack of a better terht So what else could this be? I est power, then I’in to coain This time, I want to explore Okay?"

"Go for it," Alison said

Once more, Fiona used her telepathy to draw near, but this ti inside, she closed her eyes and with tentativeto deterainst Alison’s arer the farther down her arm she traveled By the ti vibration in her own hand

What is that? Alison sent

My hand is treh filled with a kind of power I don’t understand

Mind-to-mind, she sent, Can you throw a hand-blast?

No, Fiona responded I’ve tried but I don’t have that capacity

A long pause, in which she could feel power building in Alison At exactly the saer and stronger

"Fiona, work very hard to stay right next to me exactly as you are but open your eyes and look at me"

Fiona locked herself into the asped because she and Alison stood in the exact sae since Fiona’s right hand was raised but opposite her, Alison’s left hand was raised, palers tense

Fiona looked at her hand She felt her connection to Alison, her being pressed close to Alison, connected She felt power in her hand She looked back at Alison "What will happen if I release what I’ve gathered here in the pal?"