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the attacks are vampires,
so he’s fighting them and saving innocent people.” He shrugged. “We
can’t decide if we want to let him be, or if we should try to find
out who he is.”
    I stood, excited.” “We have to find out! He
could help with our plans.”
    Drew shifted and leaned against the door
frame. “We don’t actually have any plans, yet, in case you
forgot.”
    “Plans for what?” Alice hurried into the
room.
    “World domination.” I ate the last bite of
my muffin and crumpled the wrapper, and then I wandered into the
kitchen to throw it away.
    I could hear Drew explaining the whole thing
to her. I took my time in the kitchen, got a glass of orange juice,
drank it, rinsed the glass and set it in the sink. I finally heard
Alice’s quiet voice reply, “I think we should find out who he is,
too. Whether we have plans to attack or not, we should know
who he is.”
    I wandered back into the room. “Does he even
know about the hunters? That is another thing to consider.”
    I picked up my backpack and slipped it on my
back.
    Drew narrowed his eyebrows. “That’s a good
point. Most importantly is that he's drawing attention to himself
and exposing us without even knowing it. Where are you going?”
    “Library. You ready, Alice?”
    Drew spread his hands out “What? I’m not
invited?”
    I went to him and gave him a quick peck on
the lips. “Oh, don’t pout. Of course you’re invited.”
    Alice laughed out loud. I turned away and
opened the front door.
    ~~~***~~~
    “Nothing!” Alice closed yet another book and
shoved it toward the stack of books sitting in the center of the
large table we had taken over.
    I couldn’t help but let out a long sigh. “We
are never going to figure this out.”
    Alice frowned. “Maybe we should just face
it, you guys. It’s a possibility that I’m never going to find
magic.” She shrugged. “Maybe Sostrate was wrong.”
    Drew and I shared a concerned look at the
same time Oscar showed up with his motorcycle helmet in hand.
    “She isn’t wrong,” he declared, setting his
helmet on the table.
    “We don’t know that.” Alice looked up at
him. “We can’t find anything about how to do this sort of thing in
any of these books.” She motioned to the stack on the table. “I
don’t even know any of my family, and none of us know any witches.
We can’t ask the board members, because they already think we are
all crazy.”
    Oscar stepped behind her and rubbed her
shoulders. “Let’s not stress out too much right now. You’re doing
so great with your sword training; you have that to concentrate
on.”
    He stopped rubbing her shoulders and sat in
the chair beside her.
    My mind hadn’t exactly been on the
conversation while I listened to them talk. I had been thinking,
and I didn't know why I hadn’t thought of it before.
    “Alice,” I leaned forward, “I have powers,
and I’m not a witch, but all these books go back to witchcraft
being part of nature and elemental. They all talk about dealing
with the person’s energy, the individual witch in question, like,
her inner energy.
    I saw Drew’s mouth open a little bit as
understanding set in.
    I continued, “I pretty much taught myself
how to control the fire. I still am, but I could probably help you
figure out how to help you focus your energy.”
    Drew pointed at his book. “And we have
enough in here about candles, crystals and junk to know what we'll
need for help.”
    Oscar traced his finger over the back of
Alice’s hand. “She’s right. This might work.”
    With a shrug, Alice nodded. “Well, it’s
worth a shot, I guess.”
    Even though she agreed, I could hear the
skepticism in her voice.
    “Good!” I shut my book, too. “I’ll help you
work on that tomorrow.” Quickly, I shot an ‘I’m sorry’ look at Drew
before going on. “Since we are all here, I think we need to talk
about what we are going to do about the vampires.”
    No one said anything in response, which was
kind of