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All of this was good and a little disturbing to think about, but it wasn’t ere here "My friend earing a bracelet--"

"Tiffany’s?" he asked and shtly "It was just like the one you’re wearing"

Surprise rolled over Luc’s face like a wave The little punk dropped his legs onto the floor and sat straight "Not good"

Foreboding chills skated over ood?"

He seemed to debate whether he should talk about it and then ith a, "Oh, what the hell You’ll owe me, hope you realize But what you see here?" Luc flicked a finger along the stone "It’s a black opal--so rare that only a few mines can even unearth these babies And it’s only these kinds"

"The ones that look like they have fire in theet a better look It really did look like a black orb with a flame inside "Where are theyin the composition of a black opal that’s like a power booster You know, like Mario gets when he hits a ine that sound That’s what a black opal does"

"What kind of composition?" Daemon asked, eyes sharp with interest

Luc unhooked the bracelet and held it up in the diht "Opals have this reths of light"

"No way," Daemon breathed, and apparently that was super cool I was still lost on the whole stone and light thing

"Yes" Luc sal son "I don’t knoho discovered it Soured out what it could do, they kept it away from the Luxen and ones like us"

"Why?" I felt stupid for asking, mainly because both of theree in alien h "It’s okay Refracting and reflecting wavelengths of lights affects us, like the obsidian affects Arum and onyx affects us"

"Okay," I said slowly

Luc’s purple eyes glies the direction and speed Our friendly neighborhood aliens are ht--well, made of more than that, but let ht And let’s say that once a huht"

I re to explain this before "And onyx disrupts those wavelengths of light, right? Kind of o crazy"

Luc nodded "Opal’s ability to refract allows a Luxen or a hybrid to be ht"

"And the reflection part--ed, Dae Sure, super speed, ability to pull on the Source more easily, and probably a slew of other benefits, but reflection? I waited

Daeed me with his elbow "We flicker or fade sometimes because we move fast And sometimes you see us fade in and out--it’s just reflection Soer"

"And it’s hard when you’re excited or upset?"

He nodded "As, but to control reflection?" He fixed on Luc "Are you saying you can do what I think you can?"

Laughing, Luc hooked the bracelet around his wrist and sat back, dropping his legs on the desk again "Hybrids are good We can move faster than humans, but with the obesity rates nowadays, turtles can er than the average Luxen when it comes to the Source--it’s thepowerful, but that’s not standard" A self-fulfilled sive a Luxen one of these, and they can coht"

My heart skipped a beat "You mean…like, invisible?"

"So cool," Daee the e look, but become invisible? Yeah, that’s new"

Confounded, I shook my head "Can we be invisible?"

"No Our huets in the way of that, but it est Luxen and then soine that they wouldn’t want any of us having these…especially one that hasn’t been proven to be stable, unless…"

A cold breath of air shot over my neck "Unless what?"

Some of the enthusiasm faded froe the hybrid caused Maybe your friend was a test run for a bigger incident"