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he
will not take to this. And I do not know how to help him.” Michael
told him not to. “What if he should come to me? What should I tell
him?”
    “ He will come to you. If I
were you, I would advise him to stay away from her and to keep his
distance. It worked for you. The more you were told to stay away,
the more you wanted the young Kala.” Riss flushed when he thought
of how many times he’d been warned to stay away from his charge,
only to seek her out more and more. He looked at the house again
and felt sorry for his friend.
    “ Agon will be most
displeased with us.” Michael nodded. “I shall stay out of it, but I
would enjoy being made aware of things. It might help me in
answering his questions.”
    “ I will tell you what I
can.” As Michael disappeared, Riss sat on the tiny bench near the
building. He wanted to go inside. The smells coming from the open
window of the building felt as if they were calling to him. There
were so many scents floating around him that he closed his eyes to
imagine the beautiful plants that he knew they came
from.
    “ What are you doing here?”
He looked at Judith as she stood in front of him. He’d not heard
her coming out of the house and stood up. She backed up several
steps, and Riss felt badly about scaring her. “I asked you a
question.”
    “ I came out to get some
fresh air and to speak to a friend of mine.” She looked around, and
he chuckled. “I’m afraid he has gone back to work. Are things
straightened out with the police? I shall have some of the
protectors replace the windows that were broken out if we
can.”
    “ They’re gone, finally. I
don’t know how straightened out they are, but they left anyway.”
She looked back at the house. “That man, Agon, can you make him
leave me alone? I’ve tried to explain to him that I don’t want him
here, but he insists on staying for some stupid reason.”
    “ No, I cannot. I’m sorry,
but he is to protect you. And from what I have heard, he did his
job well today.”
    She nodded and turned back to Riss. He
saw the fear there and also something else. But before he could
figure out what it was, she stiffened. Riss felt his wings stretch
from his body. He wasn’t sure what it was that had startled her,
but he was going to protect what he already considered his
family.
    “ Do you all have those?”
He nodded and left them where they were, spread from his body wide
and full. He had no idea why he felt so at ease here with her, but
he did. “Does he have them as well, and are they this
big?”
    “ Agon? Yes he has wings,
though I believe his are bigger than mine. He is a large man.” She
walked around him but kept her distance, too. He let her, knowing
that she wouldn’t touch him, and it saddened him for some reason.
“His are wider than mine. I have been…when I was created, there was
little use for them. Agon was made a decade later, and we found
that our wings could be used to protect, not just fly. He can cover
a great deal of area with his.”
    “ He said he wants to kiss
me.” Judith was behind him so he had no idea what was on her face
when she said that. “I don’t want him near me. Especially not to
touch me. I can…I have this freaky way about me, and I can see
things when I touch people.”
    “ You are gifted, not
freaky.” She huffed at him, and Riss smiled. “Benny says that you
help him on cases. He said that you have solved a great many cases
for him that he would have otherwise left as cold
cases.”
    “ His boss hates me. The
commissioner says I’m a waste of taxpayer’s money. I don’t know how
he figures that when I’ve never taken any money from his precious
department.” Riss turned then, bringing his wings to his body. She
was leaning against the building and looking at the dark, wooden
fence that surrounded her property. “I don’t think he is the one
that sent those men for me, but I think he knows about it. If that
man Agon stays here, he’ll get hurt. I’ve got