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"Have you discovered your psychic gifts since Stephen kissed you?"
My breath caught "How did you know that?"
"It’s part of what ifts you’ve had since you were first born, but you haven’t been able to access them until now Your soul cut you off froone, isn’t it?"
Before I’d been kissed, I was totally norly norer and the chills It was everything else Kraven couldn’t figure out why I could do the things I could--the visions, seeing the searchlights, els and deain his sanity Was it all related?
"I don’t know," is what I ended up saying "Maybe"
Natalie nodded as if satisfied with that answer--or at least that I wasn’t trying to deny it "I need your help, Saht now, there’s a barrier preventingthe city limits We’ve been trapped like defenseless mice for a cat to pick off for entertainment I think you already know that"
I hadn’t tested the barrier theory, but I didn’t think she was lying about it "It’s a big city There’s h room to move around here I’ve barely left Trinity my whole life"
"We’re still imprisoned here I don’t knohat Bishop has told you aboutHe’s the one you shouldn’t trust, Samantha He’s our eneifts, isn’t he?"
The song playing below shifted to soh the bottoe conversation with Natalie that I’d barely felt howBishop of usingme He’d even admitted it, which hy he’d s up between us "So what am I supposed to do?"
"It’s very siolden dagger to ht out of ical It’s the key to leaving this city And your newfound gifts will allow you to use it to help save me--save us all--before he finds me and kills me"
I just stared at her, in shock froer Save her life Or she was going to die We all were
Bishop had said he wanted to talk to her
After all I’d seen, I wasn’t even slightly convinced it would end there
"Think about everything I’ve told you," Natalie said "Think hard It’s very iht choice now I mean you no harm, Samantha I only want you to realize your full potential I can help you do just that I know you can feel the truth in what I’ve told you Believe in me, Samantha I can help you more than he can I can help you accept what you are rather than what you were You’re better now in every way"