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He closed the distance between us, eyes roving over me, not lecherous like, but as if he wondered hoorked

"You want to figure out how to tap into your abilities?"

I snorted, and shook my head "You think you’re the first to try? You think my father didn’t try to find soht in healers and shamans and even a Daywalker once, who happened to bereen-eyed lech None of theh because there is nothing to break through I’m weak and that is all there is to it" The words hurtI’d worked hard at being good at over the years Being as one thing, letting other’s see it was totally different

Griffin shut one eye and squinted the other atdifference between the two Just got to figure out what it is that’s cutting you off, yeah?"

He stood and walked away, obviously expectingto lose I followed hiht to us on either side, crowding close and blocking out the sun better than the fog could have Griffin stopped and I stepped up beside hi as the world seemed to drop away into a deep ravine, the tops of the trees below us looking like waves on the ocean being ruffled by a steady wind

"That’s very pretty, but--"

Snarling, he backhanded h my vision blurred and warrape

I rolled, stopped only by sheer resistance on rab the bare dirt with feet and hands, right at the ledge He didn’t pause, didn’t give e wolf, his body contorting as fast as one of our shifters, the wolf Griffin lunged, teeththe cliff Panic reared its head and I fought to slow things down

"What are you doing? You were supposed to help me!" I lost my bow and arrow in the scra off the rocks; , and fast

Niah had sent etfor Cassava?

I didn’t know, and didn’t have tier and he bit down on , I punched at him with my left hand, but my blows bounced off his thick skull I kicked out as he shookin th and teeth Blood flowed downa slippery patch of led to e His dark eyes narrowed and his shoulders bunched I kneas co, but I was powerless to stop hi it toward hi it, sla htly for aup at the sky, and the earth see to die I knew it to the bottooodbyes quickly, breathed a hope that the ed that I be reunited with my mother and baby brother

A voice that was notmy senses

Call on your power

I didn’t question the voice, just reached for that part of me connected to the earth The part that hurt every ti to die anyway? One last atte, accepting reen filledthe rocks a hundred feet below, Ibounced A scream ripped out of me as my broken and mauled arm twisted under my body I tumbled down the sheer slope until I hit the trunk of a tree, the bark biting through my clothes But I was alive and the shock of that hit reen power gone from my eyes There was a scrabble of rocks and Griffin slid down the rest of the slope, back in his hu an low in h me until my hair danced in a breeze Terror lit ht of the dead "Don’t come any closer!"

He held up his hands and then squatted to a crouch twenty feet from me "I told Niah there was only one way you would learn"

Tre itself known in a bad way, and I struggled to keepabout?"

He spread his hands, a s over his lips "When so as you have from their natural born powers or talent, it takes a life or death situation to begin the road to opening you up You had to truly believe I was going to kill you Had anyone you’d known tried this, it wouldn’t have worked You wouldn’t have believed them, yeah? But me You didn’t know hto touch it rarab my head with both hands, which of course just set ain

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