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You’re in an alien land, I told myself. Better get used to weird.
I swallowed, my throat suddenly very dry, and focused on what the little voice told me.
Focus on what? I thought.
I decided to focus on nothing. I let my mind go blank and…
Snap.
I hissed through my teeth and pulled my hands back. It felt like I’d been given an electric shock.
I caught movement out the corner of my eye from where my hands had been on the wall. A ripple swam across the surface like tossing a stone in a pond.
I turned to the room on the other side of the wall. The other scientists were bent over their monitors, busy with their work. None paid me any attention. Kren still lay on the chair.
He hadn’t seen me. But if I tried again, maybe he would.
“Okay,” I said. “You can do this. You did it once…”
I pressed my hands to the wall and focused. I emptied my mind and the sparks issued once more.
I squealed as the electrical charge ran into my arms and into the rest of my body. It was more uncomfortable than painful.
The wall crackled again and flashed, appearing one moment, and then disappearing the next. I stared through the flashing gap in the wall at Kren.
He double took, noticing something—me!—out the corner of his eye. He looked my way and smiled.
I couldn’t help but smile back, and for a moment, there was nothing between us.
The Supervisor straightened up. I got the sense he might peer over and see me standing there.
I removed my hands from the wall just as he turned to look over at me.
Had he seen me? Did he know Kren saw me?
The Supervisor leaped up from his stool and yelled, “Seize him!”
I guess so.
Kren bolted to his feet and struck at the first guard, but his blow was blocked and retaliated with a powerful punch to the face.
Kren went down. He was up again in an instant but it was already too late.
The other guard fired his shock rifle at Kren.
He writhed and shuddered like a fish out of water. He knocked a table over. It fell, smashing a monitor to the floor.
The other scientists screeched and backed away from the terrifying wild bolts of blue and white that made the air crackle and spark with energy.
The second guard fired up his shock rifle and joined the fun.
I slammed my fists on the wall and tried to open it the way I had before but it was impossible with Kren being tortured in front of my eyes.
I couldn’t focus. It was impossible.
“Now I have the secret of your ability!” the Supervisor shrieked with joy. “I no longer have need of you! You’re old news. Soon, you’ll be ancient history!”
He nodded to the guards, who stopped firing.
