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#wan 1 si a nightmore When we sing whats gong to hap\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pere I could answer, tome kaked on the from desk. We hard Barth awer it, then fedtops leading our way.\u00a0<\/p>\n
De Drare spared in the doorway with his black medical bag. Gond inniting, Athena How are we feeling today?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Time she said automatically.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He studied het Tace. You have more color than yesterday. That\u2019s good.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe IV helped.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Excellent. Id like to do a quick check\u2013up if you don\u2019t mind.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Athena nodded and Dr. Graze sat down across from us. He pulled out his stethoscope and listened to her heart, then her lungs. He checked her pulse and looked into her eyes with a small flashlight.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything sounds normal,\u201d he said. \u201cHeart rate is back where it should be, breathing is clear. How\u2019s your appetite?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cGetting better,\u201d she lied.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Any dizziness? Nausea?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
A little, but not too bad.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dr. Graze scribbled notes in his chart. \u201cI think you\u2019re recovering nicely. But I want you to take things slow for the next few days. No heavy lifting, no running around. Rest and plenty of fluids.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOkay.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd if you start feeling worse, or if anything strange happens, call me right away.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I saw Athena\u2019s whole body tense when he said \u2018strange.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
After Dr. Graze left, the house felt too quiet. Sarah went upstairs to make some calls. Orion locked himself in his home office. Athena and I sat in the living room with nothing but our fears for company.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI should probably try to sleep more,\u201d she said after we\u2019d been silent for twenty minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWant me to stay with you?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
For just a second, I saw her want to say yes. But then she shook her head. \u201cI think I need some time alone.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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It stung, but I got 1. She was trying to protect me from whatever was going on in her hand. Maybe from wher\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOkay, I said. \u201cBut I\u2019ll be right here if you need me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
She got up and walked toward the stairs. At the bottom, she stopped and turned back.\u00a0<\/p>\n
*Tristan?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Yeah?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thank you for not running away.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
My chest tightened. \u201cI would never run away from you. Never.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
She gave me a sad smile and disappeared upstairs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I sat alone in the living room and tried not to think about what would happen if this got worse. If whatever was inside her got stronger. If she stopped\u00a0<\/p>\n
being able to fight it off.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But the thoughts came anyway. They crawled into my head and made themselves at home. What if she hurt someone by accident? What if she hurt me?\u00a0<\/p>\n
What if she hurt herself trying to stop it?\u00a0<\/p>\n
I heard Athena moving around upstairs. The floorboards creaked as she paced back and forth. She was probably doing the same thing I was \u2013 thinking\u00a0<\/p>\n
about all the ways this could go wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sarah came back downstairs an hour later. She looked tired.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything all right?\u201d I asked.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018I called in sick to work for the rest of the week,\u201d she said. \u201cI can\u2019t leave her right now.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat about the kids? When will they get back?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re staying until we figure this out. I told them Athena has the flu.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
More lies. We were all getting good at lying.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s scared, Sarah said. \u201cShe\u2019s terrified of what she might do.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I nodded. We were all terrified.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe I should try to talk to her,\u201d Sarah said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cShe wanted to be alone.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes being alone is the last thing someone needs.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sarah went upstairs. I heard her knock on the guest room door, heard Athena\u2019s muffled voice telling her to come in. Their conversation was too quiet for me to make out the words, but it went on for a long time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When Sarah came back down, she looked even more worried than before.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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That wanders that stige if we came to its meaty, Frida\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yether d We were all just ing\u00a0<\/p>\n
* we went along, hoping or the best\u00a0<\/p>\n
Orion came at of his office arvend neon. He locked fed hewn wresting with something\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tve been doing research,\u201d he said. \u201cLooking into stories about shifters with talabiles. Trying to find anything that\u00a0<\/p>\n
Did you find anything? Sarah asked.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe. There are some old legends about shifters who could absorb life force. But they\u2019re just stories. I can\u2019t tell whats real and what\u2019s\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat do the stories say?\u201d I asked.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Orion hesitated. That it usually ends badly.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The words bung in the air like a death sentence. We all knew what he meant. The people in those stories didn\u2019t learn to control their powers. They ther died trying or became monsters.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Those are just stories, Sarah said firmly. \u201cThis is real life. Well find a way to help her.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
But I could see the doubt in her eyes. We all wanted to believe there was a solution, but none of us knew what it was.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Athena came downstairs around two in the afternoon. She looked pale and shaky.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI heard voices,\u201d she said. \u201cThought I should come down.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHow are you feeling? Orion asked.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Like I\u2019m falling apart,\u201d she said, and for once, she didn\u2019t try to pretend everything was fine.\u00a0<\/p>\n
My phone rang disrupting our conversation, I pulled it out. Derek\u2019s name flashed on the screen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHey, I answered.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTristan, I need to talk to you guys. I found something. Information about what happened in that cave.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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