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"That’s good to know I think" He stopped just inside the ot the necklace with you, maybe you should put it on now" I fished it out of my purse, and he took it from me to fasten around my neck while I held et it fastened, and I couldn’t tell if he was fu ain When we left the building, he had a protective arm around my waist I’d seen what he could do and kneithout a doubt that he wouldn’t allow anything to happen to ot on the subway and staked out a pole, standing face-to-face on either side of it As the train lurched forward, he looked over the top of th of the car, just under the ceiling, then he bent to speak directly into my ear "Tell ht into his eyes, close enough to see the slight color variations throughout the ht blue If I wasn’t mistaken, there were flecks of silver in there But I didn’t think that hat he was talking about "You mean the ads?" I forced myself to look away froet your degree and have a better life’ ads in Spanish"

"You read Spanish?"

"You’re not the only one who knows other languages I’m from Texas We have to learn Spanish in school"

"And that’s all you see?"

"Yeah"

"What’s your necklace doing?"

I’d barely noticed its steady thru soberserk, but it feels like there’s a low level of steady activity Let uess, this car is full of those ads"

"Exactly And quite frankly, I’ them"

"It looks like he just stuck hatever was there before he put his ads up," I agreed "I hope he does better with the TV ads and doesn’tlike ads for a ot ads for Pepsi in Tiination He loses even n"

The silver flecks in his dark eyes sparkled as he grinned and asked, "What would you have had him do?"

"H ironic, ic as a description for their products--like ically delicious He should have used soic while covering a real ad about real ic" It felt weird to talk like this on the subway, but ere close together and speaking almost directly into each other’s ears, so I doubted anyone else could overhear us even if they weren’t all plugged into iPods

"That’s good," he said, nodding "You should be working in advertising"

"What, and give up saving the world?"

We reached our station, and he kept his arot his arm back around me as soon as ere both clear The attention seehtest bit of physical contact fro’s lurking in the bushes to juot you inside a protective field that shields …"

I shivered, knowing the way his weird feelings went No wonder he was hustling me toward his house at full speed "Does what you see always co to stop it?"

"I usually just see the presence of danger, not the results So all I know tonight is that there erous that could affect us, not whether it will actually attack or harm us And if you don’tto pick so up After the last time, I’m afraid to take the chance"

"That doesn’t mean on’t end up with oysters Rockefeller e try to order burgers"

"We can always feed those to Loony, if we have to," he said with a mischievous smile

His sense of relief once ere inside the front door of his town house was almost palpable Whatever he’d sensed hts with a careless wave of his hand while picking up his loudlycat "Make yourself comfortable," he said "I need to feed her before she drives us insane, and then we can get so for ourselves"