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The center attraction will be a beautiful dragon topiary, ivy and honeysuckle covering a fine wire frame, crafted by a hts, so the school low from within I can almost smell the honeysuckle

Alh the door "Do all gyms smell the same?"

I turn away from my daydream "Probably"

She drops her backpack by the door and then rushes toward me in the middle of the room

"Guess what!"

I stare at her for aBut she skids to a stop and I reply, "What?"

"I just autoported," she squeals "On purpose!"

"Really?" That’s quite impressive, since she’s only recently learned she has this power I have yet to gain the slightest control over ht be jealousy--a foreign sensation "Did you autoport here?"

Her face falls "No"

I thought that was the obvious follow-up question It wasn’t my intention to make her feel bad Before I can explain, she continues

"I was about to get eaten by a harpy and--"

"A harpy?" If ht--and I’m certain it does--harpies are evil creatures sent to do Zeus’s dark bidding "That rin "She had ood"

"Wow, that’s …" I’m not sure how to respond She see Should she be taking on such a dangerous creature alone? Gretchen does it all the time, I know, but Grace and I are different We’re … untrained I suppose that only makes her victory all the ement seems to make her happy, because she nods and turns to look around the rooood itlate," she says, looking around the gym "Where’s Gretchen?"

"Not here yet"

We stand in an aard silence

I can hold intelligent conversations with heads of state, billionaire CEOs, and the occasional celebrity who’s in town to film a movie or television show But at the moment I can’t even make small talk with my sister What is the --or rather, interrupting--the tension, "have you told your parents?"