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seemed to get more and more annoyed. I could hardly control myself. The ground started trembling beneath my feet; I threw the book back in the car then looked up at the clouds. A sudden bolt of lightning struck the ground and a stand of trees burst into flames. Deafening thunder roared through the skies. Then I heard footsteps behind me. I turned around quickly catching a reflection of myself in the car window. My eyes were shining brighter than they ever had before. I saw the four of them standing there.
    “You need to stop,” the tall one said.
    I turned my attention to him. He rose up and was thrown against one of the trees. He hit the ground again hard.
    “Keira!” a familiar voice said. “You have to stop. You will expose us all.”
    For some reason his voice made me start to relax and the ground stopped shaking. That was the first time this one had spoken.
    “And the rest,” he said, pointing to the sky.
    A couple of seconds later, the skies were calm again, but my eyes wouldn’t go back to normal. The tall guy was back on his feet and started walking towards us. Again the ground started to shake.
    “Stay away from her!” another familiar voice told him. “It’s you that’s making her angry.”
    He stopped dead in his tracks and the ground returned to normal once more.
    “Leave me and my friend alone,” I told them.
    “Leave this town,” the one who had said “Get the book!” he said. “We don’t want your kind here. You’re not welcome!”
    “My kind?”
    “Return to whichever coven you’re from and do not return. You’re reckless and you risk exposing those with real power,” he said, now almost shouting his words.
    “I’m not in a coven,” I said confused.
    “I suppose you’re going to try and tell us you’ve had these powers since you were born.”
    “Since I was ten actually.”
    “How did you get them? What did you mess with?” he demanded to know.
    “Hey hang on, I didn’t mess with anything. I didn’t ask for these powers. I wish I had made the decision to have this thing inside me, but I wasn’t so lucky. I have never exposed my power and I never would. Maybe if you had taken the time to get to know me, instead of attacking me and just assuming things, you would have realized that.”
    None of them spoke.
    “Now just leave us alone!” I told them, my eyes returning to normal.
    I opened the car door and got in. I looked at the book for a moment and decided not to pass it over. Why should I give them something that I was obviously meant to have? Instead I just drove back to the motel.
    When I walked in I found Lily sitting in the chair waiting for me. I put the book down and told her everything that was said and about the spell that had been put on her.
    “If we meet them again I want revenge,” she seethed, pacing up and down. “I mean it, Keira. I don’t ask you for much. Who the hell do they think they are? I haven’t done anything to them, neither have you, but you can defend yourself against them, what chance do I have?”
    I laughed at her earnestness. “OK, I promise we’ll get revenge. Looks like I don’t have the choice.”
    Lily grinned. “Good. But how did you find the right spell so quickly?”
    “I didn’t.”
    “I don’t understand.”
    “Neither do I,” I said, shaking my head. “I wanted you down and awake and that’s what happened.”
    “Is that normal?” she frowned
    “No. Look, I don’t know how it happened but I’m glad it did.”
    “So am I.”
    “Lily, I swear it was Lucian’s voice I heard. He only said two sentences, probably because he knew I would recognize him. I could have sworn I heard Jake’s voice too.”
    That got her attention a little more.
    “But we know they’re not the ones you’re looking for,” she said.
    “Maybe they know them though; Lucian said their families had always lived in Massachusetts. And he knew about Edward Putnam.”
    “I don’t know what to say to you.”
    “Is your laptop charged