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Garrett had caughtroo unintelligible as Osh fell to the floor, landing on his hands and the balls of his feet like an anih tiaze furious, when Reyes body-slaainst the wall

"Who summoned them?" he asked, his voice sharp with veheed for the entertainment Then he easily broke Reyes’s hold and attacked

What happened next defied the laws of physics They ister as they each fought for do’s foundation, and a toss there that almost took out my all I tried to yell for theood

Garrett scraround, but I couldn’t tearin front of me and all around raceful and yet fierce, utterly deadly like those of a seasoned predator And they moved so fast, they disappeared for split seconds at a tis with air and focused "Stop," I said, forgoing the Latin and getting down to business

When tiht I’d seen on TV The MMA fighters were fast, but I could still see what they were doing Now, everything froze except the two brawlers ere literally tearingat al So I took it to another level I centered y, let it build, then sent it out in one solid wave "Quiesce," I cohters slowed until they didn’t move

It would take them a minute to realize what I’d done, to join me in my current time zone Before that happened, I walked toward the frozen scene Reyes had Osh on the ground, his fist barely an inch fro and it didn’t take long to figure out why His elboas headed straight for Reyes’s left eye

I should have just let them continue If not for my apartment, a space I considered sacred, I would have let thean to slip, or they were adjusting to ht would recommence any second I couldn’t let that happen I quickly knelt beside them, placed a hand first on Reyes’s chest, and said, "Rey’aziel, suffoca" Then I placed my other hand on Osh’s head and said, "Osh’ekiel, dor for the former I was very pro-life

I bit down and said softly, "Redi," co time to come back

And boy, did it As always, time crashed into me hard Stunned me But I’d taken it further this ti into round If I was as all-powerful as everyone kept telling me, I would soon have two very cooperative boys oncrap knocked out of me There was no way they could stop the punches they’d thrown that fast

As the brick wall shattered and I moved between increments of time, I felt like the world had splintered into a ravity pulled at me from every direction until I would be ripped li back to the present where twoeach other to death

I lowered my lids and waited for the blow that would surely end my life At the very least, it would mess up h to absorb such powerful blows, to shake the my delicate ass would crumble into dust after the first one

I clenchedhappened

Well, a lot happened, but I didn’t get hit Instead, Cookie’s screah me like a battle cry Thecompletely limp under my palm, and the other one, the only one in the roo for air

I let hiet his attention and for his face to turn red froer, I couldn’t be sure

"Anhela," I said, letting hiain

He collapsed onto his hands and knees, drinking in huge gulps of air, and in that moment, a flashback hit ed toward hi my mind

The first tiht, when he’d round by a Du in pain, struggling to get air into his abused body

How could I do to him what Earl had done? How could I ever cause him pain? Refuse hi with emotion "I didn’t mean to do that"

He pulled away to look at irl," he said, and I felt pride ithin hi more and more powerful every day Just like I said you would"

"I didn’t hing into a shoulder, "no, that is exactly what you need to learn to survive You did the right thing"