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the room as Karina
tried to slow her breathing and calm herself down. She concentrated
on setting the objects down, then wondered if any of them could
help her. She had little hangnail scissors on her dresser. That was
the sharpest thing in the room. She'd never really worked to
control her power before, just suppress it. She concentrated on the
little scissors and they floated awkwardly across the room to her.
She scooted them with her mind till they were behind her. She
grabbed them with her hands and started to work on the rope with
them.
     
    ***
     
    Luke had returned to Karina's building and
was staring at her window from the ground. He didn't want to wake
her, so he was going to jump up to the ledge and peek inside. But
her window was open. Had she done that? Should he go to her door
and knock? Just then he heard the sound of her muffled voice as she
struggled with something. He was up to the window in a flash.
    He looked inside. She was tied up on the bed,
struggling to saw through a rope with tiny scissors. He sped over
to her and quickly untied her hands and removed the gag. Then
untied her legs.
    "What happened?" he asked, alarmed.
    "Oh, my God, Luke!" she said, throwing her
arms around him. She was shaking.
    He held her tight. "What happened, Karina?
Who did this?" he said seriously. He looked around the room at
things lying on the floor and tipped over, drawers open again.
    "It was a vampire," Karina said as she sobbed
into his shoulder. He held her tighter.
    He rocked her a little bit, instinctively.
She calmed down and stopped sobbing.
    "We have to get out of here," he said to
her.
    "I know," she said sadly, pulling away to
look at him. "It's happening, isn't it? The danger you feared I
would be in from other vampires? His name is Geric. He said he
wanted to make me into a vampire." She looked at him with fear in
her eyes. "He liked that I could move things with my mind."
    "I know," he said. "He's part of the Runic
clan. They collect people with abilities and make them into
vampires. I'll explain more later, but we really need to leave
now." He got up and looked around. "Pack up a few things, and I'll
run to my apartment to get money and anything else we might
need."
    She stood and started looking around. "He
said he'd be back with his crew," she said.
    "I'll wait while you pack," he said.
     
     

Chapter 11
     
    A few minutes later, Luke and Karina were
hurrying through the lobby of her building, when two men dressed in
black marched confidently into the lobby. Vampires. One of them was
Geric. They stopped, and Geric waved his hand at the other one, a
stern looking man with long black hair. The black-haired vampire
sped out of the building and called up to someone in a window.
Another vampire with short dark spiky hair leaped from a window to
join him on the street, and they sped back inside to stand by
Geric. All of this happened within five seconds. Karina assumed the
vampire had been in her bedroom.
    "Karina," Geric said happily, "and Hero." He
glanced at Luke. "Is this the girl you said you killed, Hero?"
    "Leave us alone," Luke said with almost a
growl in his voice.
    "So grouchy," Geric said with a smile. "This
is a happy day, Hero. Your lover is going to be made whole." He
looked appreciatively at Karina. "Of course, she will belong to us,
however."
    Luke dropped her duffel bag and in a blur
rushed forward to attack Geric. He had knocked him to the ground in
a flash. Karina looked up in fear at the other two vampires. They
began to rush at her, but before they could she had thrown one of
the lobby couches at them with her mind. It knocked them over. She
ran for the stairwell. She ran up to the second floor and down the
hall. She quickly ran around the corner and then to the storage
room. It was never locked. Only the cages inside it were locked.
She ran to the back and around a chain link cage to hide in the
corner. Her heart was pounding. She had no idea how she had escaped
them. Maybe they hadn't seen