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bronze for a second then return to normal. But if it was a big task the whole of my eyes turned white, my pupils completely disappearing. The car engine started and I reversed it so it was about two feet away.
    “Get in the car.” I told Lily, then, lowering my voice, added, “Don’t lose the book.”
    I let go of her and she dived in the car. She locked all the doors and I moved it back to where it was originally parked. I looked up and stared at each of them in turn, my eyes were back to normal. They were still standing completely still.
    “What do you want?” I asked plainly.
    “How did you get into that house?” one of them asked.
    “None of your business.”
    “Where did you get that book?”
    “Again, none of your business”
    “Get the book!” he ordered the tallest one.
    He started walking over to the car. I started after him but almost immediately one of them launched an energy ball straight at me. I felt my eyes turn as it hurtled towards me. I sent one back. They met in mid-air, fizzling then fading as they cancelled each other out. Then I instantly threw another at the guy heading for the car. He didn’t have time to react and it sent him flying backwards.
    “If you wanted a fight you should have just said,” I told them, and then threw them continuously from each hand at them all. They blocked some but in the end they had all been knocked off their feet. Every time one of them tried to move I would hit them with a ball. I was getting carried away with it all until Lily blew the horn. I ran to the car and we shot off again.
    “Where are we going?” she asked.
    “Back to the motel.”
    “WHAT?!”
    “You just saw me take all four of them on. They are no match for me; we’ll be perfectly safe.”
    Lily was silent all the way back and didn’t look impressed at all. When we got inside she locked and double-checked the door and the windows. Then she dragged me to the sofa and sat me down.
    “OK, look,” she started, “I think I’ve been a damn good friend through all this. I mean how many people do you know who would stand by someone who can do what you can? You never tell me anything and I think I deserve an answer to a few questions, don’t you?”
    “Fair enough, you can have two questions tonight.”
    “TWO!!” she yelled, banging her fists on her knees.
    “Take it or leave it.”
    “Fine, how do you control it? You know, how do you get things to do what you want?”
    “That’s actually really hard to explain. OK, umm… it’s like when you’re walking, you don’t have to think to yourself, OK left foot forward, now right foot forward, do you? You just start to walk and your legs move.”
    “Yeah.”
    “Well, it’s kinda like that, it’s just instinct. I know what I want and I just…make it happen. I can’t explain it any other way. The truth is I don’t really know how it works, I just use it.”
    “So if you wanted me dead, you could just make it happen.”
    “No, it doesn’t work like that. I would have to do something like throw you off a cliff, or throw a knife into you or something.”
    “So you don’t have to call on the power from somewhere?” she quizzed.
    “Lily, the power is in my blood; it runs through me all day every day. It never leaves me.”
    “So why do your eyes go white?” she said, circling her own with a finger.
    “That’s far more than two questions.”
    “I don’t care.”
    “They change when I let the power run freely through me.”
    “I thought you said it does that anyway.”
    “It’s always in me, however to use it, I set it free. But I’m still in control. When I’m not using it, it lies dormant; I suppose it’s just a side effect. Think of it like a volcano. One minute just like any old mountain, but the next all that smoke and lava.”
    “I think I understand.”
    “I told you it was hard to explain. To me it’s just a natural thing; to you obviously it’s not.”
    “Well, thanks for trying.”
    I smiled at her, then