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CHAPTER ONE

This ti could stop e light I would not burn off another eyebrow…

Keeping up , I watched as a tiny sphere of blue light flickered to life into keep myself calm But h ht orb just a tiny bits

When my vision cleared, Iinto mine The eyes were attached to Trill, the kelpie, who lived e of Rockabill, Maine As a kelpie, she had two forms: the weird little sea-pony form she was in now and a humanoid forles

"She still has both eyebrows," the pony reported, her voice oil-slick slippery

"Good," carandmotherly tones "She looked hideous with just the one"

The kelpie nodded sagely, and I gave her , Trill," I told her as I grabbed a hank of her seaweed forelock to help haulfree of rass, roaned pathetically as Nell’s little face loomed over "

I took a deep breath, blinking ht, still a little woozy Nell the gnome smiled at me, but I wasn’t fooled Behind those rustic clothes and that pleasant expression lurked the disposition of the gunnery sergeant froain"

Do or do not There is no try, my weary brain chittered at the tiny but i at me with her wee fists balled at her hips If I didn’t know she could drop iant silver bun to discus throw her into the trees Instead, I laboriously clas offthee where they were driving ly, clearedto picture my head as an empty room, painted all in white, that held no sound I then pictured ed in the middle of that colorless, silent room--eyes shut and perfectly in control of both row shallow as I tried to withdraw even further inward, to where the power lay within me

"Concentrate, Jane, and pull fro voice "Now, this tiht is the natural result of your ht itself distract you from control"

I held my palm out in front of me Technically, I didn’t need to use ht But it helped to solidify my visualization of what I wanted, and I’d seen that a lot of supernatural folk, includinghts

And Ryu has very creative hands, chimed in my ever- irrepressible libido, as if on cue