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won’t faint, I promise.” Ariana waited to gauge the witch’s reaction. The determination and tightly clamped lips had given way to a resigned look and shallow breathing. Seizing her chance, Ariana pressed again. “Didn’t you know? A problem shared is a problem halved. I’m here and I can listen. You want to talk about it?” She really wasn’t sure she could handle it, but she was going to damn well try.
    “Do I want to talk about it? More than you know, princess. I do appreciate your offer and I would gladly talk, under different circumstances. But, this time, I can’t. I swore I wouldn’t say a word.”
    A moment’s silence filled the cabin. Ariana’s eyes were staring, unseeing, at the controls. Rainey’s gaze was totally unfocused, though inspiration, good ideas and further visions remained infuriatingly out of reach. Time dragged just as frustratingly slow as expected.
    “We still have a good fifteen minutes to kill, so what shall we talk about? What kind of music do you like?”
    “I don’t know. All kinds, I guess.” Ariana took a deep breath and blurted out. “What’s so bad about this vision, that you won’t tell me? Was it about me? Am I going to die?”
    “I told you, I can’t tell you. Stop pestering.”
    “Why? Don’t you trust me? I can keep a secret, you know? I mean, we’re friends now, right? I wouldn’t have set foot on a plane, comatose or not, if I didn’t think of you as a friend already.”
    Good luck with this one, Abe, Rainey thought wryly. The girl has a discipline problem and selective hearing. If I find it hard to refuse her pleas, what chance does a love-sick male vampire stand? She smiled to herself. This should be fun to watch.
    “I think of you as a friend, too, Ariana, but you have to understand that I can’t tell you the content of my visions. If I do, something might change, in another vision perhaps. Life is in constant flux and I cannot interfere in the normal flow of things. Upcoming events are too joyful, too auspicious to mess them up by revealing what I’ve seen.”
    “Upcoming events? In another vision? Can you tell me about that one, at least?”
    Ariana was determined to ease the nervousness that still had her on edge since she’d heard Rainey scream for that Abe guy to stop, deep in the throes of her vision. Would eavesdropping on a vision be considered an interference, too? This was all way too scary for her. Hell, she’d been in a nice and peaceful coma for weeks, and now, within a few hours of her awakening, life had become a terrifying rollercoaster. She wasn’t sure if she’d made the right decision accepting Rainey’s offer.
    “All I’m saying is that it was about you, and that is why you are sitting beside me now,” Rainey’s voice broke into Ariana’s thoughts.
    It was about me, Ariana gasped. Her intuition had been spot on, as if Rainey’s psychic abilities were rubbing off on her already. Ariana really didn’t like the idea of her and Abe sharing visions in a witch’s bizarre mind. That was a really scary concept. Plus, this Abe guy was a vampire – double scary. Definitely have to stay away from anything with fangs, she concluded. And planes.
    Rainey was watching every play of emotion on Ariana’s face. She was incredibly sharp, for a human girl. Intuitive. This secret won’t stay a secret for much longer, Rainey mused.
    “Listen, I’ll have to call Abe and get him to organize a room for you. I wasn’t sure you would come, so I didn’t do anything about that before I left. I need a quick chat with him – which will also give you enough time to freshen up – and then I’ll pick you up and take you to a restaurant for something to eat.
    “Good, I’m starving, and I have to pee.”
    “You have to pee? How do you have to pee? You haven’t drunk anything in weeks.”
    “When I’m nervous… I just feel this knot in my stomach and it makes me want to pee. Sorry,” Ariana explained hastily, cheeks flaming with