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again.”
    Something told me I shouldn’t have asked. “What happened to the one I gave you?”
    “He took it,” she blurted out.
    He being Selby, who had taken something else that did not belong to him. Yet another reason for me to destroy him. I would've given her the heliodor from my necklace, but breaking the chain meant the other prisms would fall off. Plus, if we got into a fight, she’d be useless with a gold prism. Along with making its wearer sterile and slowing the aging process, for some unexplainable reason it prohibits violent use of our powers.
    “And the Collective has the source crystals hidden somewhere,” I said to myself, cursing under my breath.
    We were stuck.
    Rhapsody snapped her fingers. “I almost forgot. They might be in your storage unit. Some men from your church loaded it up before the sheriff came. It’s the middle of the day, Cap, so we don’t even have to sneak in! We’ll get a key, look around, and be out. Easy.”
    “Unless it’s full,” Sasha said, her hand stroking her chin. Then you won’t be able to ghost in and get them out.”
    I’d rip the doors off if I had to. How dangerous could a storage unit facility be anyway? It was in a seedy part of town, but I’m practically invincible. “Whatever. However.” My stomach rumbled. “We’ll get them. Let’s hurry up and then get something to eat.”
    Sasha stared down at her feet. “You two should go to the unit.” She paused. “I need to handle ‘Corky’ and her mess. I'll be done by the time you two finish and you can scoop me up.”
    “Corky” was the nickname Joyce’s friends came up with because she liked to drink too much wine.
    Rhapsody shifted her stance. “She threw up, Sasha. Joyce is a grown woman. She’ll sober up and deal with the crusty carpet herself. Leave her be. You belong with us.”
    I looked over at my not-so-sure-about-this girlfriend and took the hint. “She’s right. We need you.”
    It was true – she was smarter that the both of us put together. Or at least my half of that combination.
    Our little pep talk gave Sasha new life. She even smiled. “I guess you’re right. Okay.”
    She bounced back into the house and returned with a pink wallet and some keys on a ring. “I’ve got a little cash here, like three hundred bucks. Credit cards, car keys...umm…for wherever we’re going.”
    With her high IQ and the money she’d lifted we’d be able to find a hideout spot with no problem.  From there we could figure out where to go and what to do next.
    Running a hand through her hair, Rhapsody sounded surprised at Sasha’s theft. “Three hundred bucks is ‘a little cash’ to you? Man, Sasha, I mean what if Joyce calls…”
    “Please,” she said interrupting. “She never notices anything. I’ve been forging her name and swiping her credit cards for years. She just pays off the bills, drinks a few highball glasses of brandy and eventually passes out. It’s no wonder my dad left her.”
    That sounded even sadder to hear out loud. “All right then,” I said. “We’ll make it quick.”
    Sasha put her arm around me and suddenly withdrew it, sensing the awkwardness. Touching for us used to be natural, almost second nature. “Can’t we take Joyce’s car instead?” she asked me. “I can drive it.”
    I pushed past the discomfort and I wrapped my arm around her tiny midsection.
    “Flying’s faster. Anyway, it’s almost rush hour and we’ve seen enough cops for a while.”
    Rhapsody pretended to be okay with my having my arm around my ex and edged close to me. She put a hand on my chest and kissed my cheek. “Ready?”
    I held her just a bit tighter than I did Sasha. “Yeah.”
    Before we hit the air Rhapsody placed her hand over the heliodor on my neck. She used its radiation to make the three of us invisible. Together, the three of took off for the storage facility downtown. Though I could breathe fine at supersonic speed, I flew slowly enough so the girls wouldn’t