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Doc.”
    “Forgive my eagerness. I’m just… curious about how it feels to hold the power of Danu in your hands.”
    His eyes turned glassy as if he were in a faraway place, and he bit his bottom lip. His change in demeanor creeped Theo out, but he recovered quickly and seemed to brush away whatever dream he fell into. She figured he was just eccentric. He must have sensed her discomfort.
    He softened his voice and asked, “Do you feel pain when you use aether?”
    Theo shrugged. “No, there’s no pain. It’s more like a … tingle.” She omitted the fact that using it in excess was exhausting, or that it could become uncontrollable at times, especially when she got emotional. “Most of the time, I feel aether all around me. It has a smell to it like rain, but it’s different for all of us.”
    “You say most of the time?”
    Theo groaned, “Yeah, those cells you put us in weaken it somehow.”
    “Aha! Professor Scrod was right. She created a paint that she believed would block aether from the room. She’ll be glad to hear it works,” he gushed.
    “Good to know,” Theo grumbled. “Although I have to wonder what made you create such a thing in the first place. Were you expecting to lock us up?”
    He looked surprised and hurt. “No. Well, I never intended to lock you up. I can’t speak for the other True Followers.”
    “I see,” Theo deadpanned.
    His excuse seemed all too convenient to her. She reached out to Julia and Valera.
    There is a substance painted on the walls of the cells to keep the aether away.
    Roger that, Julia shot back . I’m going to try and scrap it off.
    “Where were you just then? You looked like you were focusing on something,” Dr. Lawless pounced.
    “Nowhere. I was just thinking.”
    “Theo, you can trust me. I’m on your side.”
    “Trust you? You’re a part of the True Followers… or is it the Elders? I can’t tell the difference. Either way, you have us locked up in aether-proof cells. How can I trust any of you?”
    He looked back at the door and leaned closer to her. “The difference is that the True Followers believe Danu’s spirit can be released, giving them power. They want to use you. The Elders maintained their rule by withholding the truth from the people. They want to stop you from fulfilling your destiny. However, I and a few of my colleagues just want to learn from you and help you.”
    “Then help us get out of here,” Theo hissed. She was growing tired of all the people who wanted to use them.
    He nodded. “I’m working on it. We have to be careful. There are spies everywhere.” He leaned back and spoke in a louder voice. 
    “Well, that was enough for today. Good job, Theo.”
    The white robes returned. Dr. Lawless stood up and put a hand on her shoulder. He squeezed her arm and nodded. She smiled in return. There wasn’t any harm in playing along – for a little while. The white robes escorted her back to her cell. The cuffs were gone, but the click of the door echoed in her mind. She hated feeling trapped.
     

 
    Chapter Four
     
    Julia
     
    Julia paced across the small room. The chains around her wrists dragged along the floor. The muscles in her arms ached from scratching at a corner wall with the metal, trying to remove whatever the Elders, or True Followers, or whatever they called themselves, had coated them with. She hadn’t had any luck. The stuff was like solid tar. Theo’s door slammed shut.
    Are you there? She asked through their telepathic connection .
    Yeah, I’m back.
    Valera chimed in. What happened?
    Nothing really. We just talked. I made a few sparks. Lawless says he wants to help us.
    What does that mean? Julia snapped. She didn’t trust anyone; let alone some random doctor she didn’t know.
    He said he’s going to get us out of the cells, and I think we can trust him. He’s not with the True Followers. He wants the same thing we do – to release Danu. We can’t trust Slammy and the rest, so I say we see where this