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The ocean ru down on Mark and htup the piece of glass and holding it tightly in the palh the ocean had dulled the edges so that I didn’t slice h to hurt I barely noticed

Instead, I was re those times in the cave when I had seen ed to trap the told me this was it This outburst of power that was allanced over at Mark, atching me with a combination of awe and fear, and toldtoand I would not let hilass up in the air as high as I could, I aiht at it Electricity blasted into the glass, suspending it init up frolowing blue The sea glass hovered there, a large crack appearing down the center of it, but it didn’t shatter Instead, it absorbed every ounce of energy I poured in

Aroundstopped altogether, and slowly, so slowly that at first I thought I was ian to break down Drop by drop, inch by inch, it began tosea

And still I kept the power flowing straight into the glass, drainingmyself out in an effort to stop the destruction that still hovered at the tips ofeverything I had into that tiny piece of glass Long enough for exhaustion to replace energy and frustration to replace fear But in the end, it orth it The wave dissipated The storness Soon the only reminder of my loss of control was the destruction left in the wake of the storlass that dropped harmlessly athot I wanted to leave the sea glass there, to bury it deep in the sand and pretend the last hour had never happened, but doing so was i--who knehat kind of noring the blister that was rising on lass for one second, two, then used whatever strength I had left to launch it as far into the ocean as I possibly could It soared for longwaves

"What was that?" Mark staggered up to est marathon in history--and come in last

"You kneas different," I answered

"Different, yes Able to light up a major metropolitan area under your oer, no" He s, but I could see the truth

I let hi comfort from him in a way I never had been able to when I was co and safe with his heavily muscled arms wrapped around me that I never wanted to leave

I couldn’t stay here forever, though, much as I wanted to Not when Tia I cared about--here on land and in the ocean There was soaas about to happen

At the sa here Not nohen I had just found Mark and ain Not nohen I had so much to say to ht of reith each second I was on land, until ain so sensitive that I could barely stand the feel of Mark’s calloused hands resting onBut as it? What use did she have for , and she hadn’t needed Moku Not really What she’d needed was Kona and me out of the way for a few days so that she could run unchecked through the ocean, doing whatever she wanted She would still have to fight Sabyn and Hailana, would still have to fight Kona’s family, but without the two of us she would have ahavoc on our clans

In thoseclicked into place and I knew