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"Maybe if there were only a couple, but there were five pissed-off psychos eapons! I couldn’t just stand there and watch!"

Kaidan, exasperated, pivoted like he was going to walk away, raked his fingers through his hair, and turned to ain

"What did you think you could do?" he asked "You got in a lucky shot when you racked him, but what if it hadn’t worked? As you saw today your mind powers don’t alork!"

Ah He had no idea what I was capable of now I held a hand out "Give ether "What?"

"Just give it to y

"No, Anna, I don’t knohat you’re trying to do, but this is ridic--"

Myall th to hook a foot behind his knee and slam my palm into his shoulder He landed on his back with a surprised oof and I crouched over him

"Give ain

"Holy" Blake let out a long whistle from where he watched at the rail

Kaidan lay there with a whimsical sort of look and said, "God, that was hot"

I held out my hand This time he fished the knife from his waistband and placed the onyx handle in my palm From my crouched position I momentarily eyed a wooden bird statue perched at the top of the deck rail twenty feet away, then let the cool h the air with a sound like rapid wing beats, then a whump as it stuck into the side of the bird’s head

"Dude!" Blake yelled

Beneath me, where Kaidan lay, burst a vivid cloud of red so brief I wondered if I’d iined it I stared down at him in shock

"You showed your colors!" I said