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If they could keep up the pace--aspeed--they could be there in an hour Maybe a little more

Both of theh the burning camp, earbuds still in,like a Harry Potter house elf behind her

Each tiht was quite effective, she thought, not asher father’s telekinetic power But the lifting and throwing and s werea hu it fall with a screa a car down like a ha the o tons of steel would collapse a huroup ofat top speed Gaia turned on her own speed and was on the beside them effortlessly

She lit her hands, not to kill, but to see the looks on their faces Terror They were like terrified herd ani, weeping She was the tiger and they were, what, sheep?

She decided to play with her other powers She canceled gravity beneath the fleeing people They stuet their balance

She looked up at thehed She raised one hand, picked out a first victiirl burned like a torch in the sky

It onderful

The others screaher, unable to escape, unable to hide

She fired and ht was too dim to see them clearly, even when Gaia squinted So Gaia lowered thehted eyes could make them out in detail Then she lit thee glow over the ground below

She pulled out the earbuds to hearwas--

Gaia toppled over She hit the ground, face in the dirt, and realized she was staring over at her own leg, lying by itself, the severed knee bleeding

The second bloas from a knife that seemed almost to come out of thin air, it happened so fast An invisible force had left it planted in her belly

Agony!

With Gaia’s focus destroyed, her burning huround all around her Soht in the light, and Gaia saw her yanking so off her back

Gaia rolled to one side as BOOM!

Shotgun pellets tore up the ground where Gaia had been She kept rolling, each turn forcing the knife deeper into her stomach

Gaia yanked the knife out, amazed by the pain, and pressed one hand on the wound Her severed leg was now several feet away

BOOM!