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This was too weird for ed to switch bodies with me, Katie Chandler, would I really think I was Katie? Wouldn’t I be going around thinking like Ari and gloating about having fooled them all? It would ruin the point to think I was Katie Meanwhile, where was Katie? If Ari was in ht into Idris and his company about now?
Another stab of pain hitinOwen’s pull "Oh, no, not so fast," I said
He turned back to fix lare "Katie, now is not the tiet all forceful and manly like that Do you ever do that in the bedroo out ofthes ca onin h I thought I could shake that little devil off, I said, "No!" Then I looked at a beet-red Owen and whispered, "Sorry I don’t knohat’s happening, but I want it to stop"
He looked syrip on my wrist so that he heldto do now, so coot to Merlin’s office, the harder I had to concentrate to forcewith Owen and not resist hi s that tried to coot worse and worse, to the point that tears came to my eyes
Fortunately, Merlin’s office doors opened as soon as we reached his suite, so we didn’t have to do battle with Kiht not have been able to resist whatever cruel things the little devil wanted me to say or do to her because I would have kind of wanted to do them, myself
Merlin shut the doors behind us as Oept me over to an armchair and seated me there He reesture that was both supportive and restraining Merlin took a seat opposite us and looked at us expectantly
"Soh what I’d told hi coincidences "Then I had her do soic I saw it, and I felt the power in use" I couldn’t see his face from where I sat, but I heard the intake of breath as he steeled hi he had to say "And here’s the odd part: She’s got Ari’s signature to her ic nearthings I don’t s intended to hurt people, and I can’t see about what I did at Rod’s New Year’s Eve party, but what I’ve heard was really awful My roo to me"
"Whatever it was that happened must have been done at the party," Oent on "She was fine until soon after ht and then…" His voice trailed off, and when he spoke again there was a roughness to it "Well, it wasn’t Katie"
Merlin nodded "You’re right, that is quite odd I’d never heard of a nature could explain it"
"She also has a bad headache," Owen said
"Hideously bad, like an alien is about to burst out of ot out of his chair and caht in front of lanced around his office, which was far neater than Owen’s, and saw a teacup sitting on a nearby table Concentrating with all ht, I tried to lift the teacup and turn it around Although I had a better sense of what to do to le, like I was fighting against so within me that didn’t want it to work By the time the teacup finally rose fro froiven up the ghost
I let the teacup fall a few inches into its saucer and collapsed back into htened, and Merlin frowned and stroked his beard "Very, very interesting," he said He stepped forward and rested his hand on the top of ic, and then he lifted his hand "And that is even ic, there’s another "