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I was holding a piece of opal

Chapter 31

We sort of stared at each other like two doofuses, and then we both sprang into action Taking the stone that was a little bigger than a nickel, ent downstairs Our heart rates picked up

I handed hi"

Dae for a piece of opal since he learned what they could do, didn’t refuse He wrapped his palhtened the line of hishappened, and then a faint shiot excited and her arlimmer and fade, but then the shine spread over his body and he disappeared

Completely disappeared

"Daemon?" A soft chuckle came from the vicinity of the couch My eyes narrowed "I can’t see you at all"

"Not at all?"

I shookback, I forced myself to focus on the couch Then I noticed the difference In front of the middle cushion and behind the coffee table, the space was distorted Sort of wavy, like looking at water through glass, and I knew he had to be standing there, blending in like a chameleon

"Oh my God, you’re totally like the Predator"

There was a pause and then, "This is so cool" Moot his first video ga to sneak into your bathroom like the Invisible Man"

I rolled , he handed it over The stone was body te crazier than y away I feel fine"

"Wow" I turned the stone over "We need to test this out"

Taking the stone, Daemon and I headed to the lake We had about fifteen minutes before anyone else showed

"You try it," Dae the opal inand the one that took thethe Source as a weapon So I decided to go with that I concentrated on the rush and it felt different this ti into it came faster, easier, and within seconds, a ball of whitish-red light appeared over"This is…different"

Dae?"

"No" And usually this wiped me out pretty darn quickly, so the opal really did have an i the Source fizzle out, I searched the ground and found a s it to the bank of the lake, I squeezed the opal in one hand "I could never do the heat-to-fire thing Burned ers pretty badly the last ti it now, then?"

Ah, good point "But you’re here to heal ic ever, Kitten"

I grinned as I focused on the branch The Source flared once again, traveling along the slender, crooked twig of a branch, encasing it whole A second later, the stick collapsed into an ash replica, and as the whitish-red light receded, the branch fell apart

"Uh," I said

"That wasn’t fire, but it was pretty da like that before Had to be the opal-enhanced alien coolness, because I just turned a stick into Pompeii

"Let me have it," Daemon said "I want to see if it has any effect on the onyx"

Handing it over, I followed hi the opal in one hand, he uncovered the stones and, jaw clenching, he picked one up

Nothing happened All of us had grown a tolerance to the rocks, but there was usually a gasp or flinch of pain

"What’s happening?" I asked

Dae"

"Let ht The bite of onyx wasn’t there We stared at each other "Holy crap"

Footsteps and voices carried into the clearing Dae it in his pocket "I don’t think we should let Blake see this"

"No doubt," I agreed

We turned as Mattheson, and Blake appeared at the edge of the woods It would be interesting to see if the opal had any affect in Dae it

"I talked to Luc," Blake announced while ere all standing around the onyx "He’s good for this Sunday, and I think we’ll be ready by then"

"You think?" Dawson said

He nodded "It’s either going to work or not"

Failure wasn’t an option "So the Sunday after pro to pro

"Why not?" I said defensively

Blake’s eyes darkened "Just seeht before We should be spending Saturday training"

"No one asked for your opinion," Dae into fists

Dawson shifted closer to his brother "One night isn’t going to hurt anything"