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apply it to objects or people with my mind (freaky; no idea WHERE this comes from)
    - Possibly related: the ability to extend my senses away from my body and receive precise impressions about the world around me. Maybe by tuning into patterns of magnetic waves? (Don’t know if this ability has a name—even in fiction—but I call it the Grid)
    - Telepathy: the ability to communicate “thought pictures” and words into the minds of others (likewise, something I’ve been able to do since childhood but never had a name for it)
    - Dad’s Book of Rules … not an ability really, but a damn helpful ace up my sleeve.

AJAY JANIKOWSKI:
    - Incredible vision, as good or better than an eagle crossed with a top-gun pilot.
    - Photographic memory: registers virtually everything he sees (and somehow doesn’t suffer from brain congestion)
    - Total recall: nothing seen by his eye ever gets forgotten by his mind (Where does he put it all? Check to see if he’s had brain MRI yet.)

NICK McLEISH:
    - Astonishing strength, agility, leaping ability, hand-eye-foot coordination.
    - World-class fighting skills, champion gymnast, master of half a dozen martial arts
    - Heightened sense of direction (an ability shared by—why does this not surprise me—a large number of wild animals)
    - Virtually—and perhaps stupidly—without fear (this might be less a “power” than a serious mental deficiency).
Which leads to …
    - (Nick and Ajay: no sign of telepathy as yet. It’s hard enough just talking with Nick.)

ELISE MOREAU:
    - Sonic power: Able to create, manipulate, and direct sound waves as physical force.
    - Telepathy: At least with ME, able to communicate without words and over undetermined distances (and getting stronger). Also capable of heightened psychological insights: intuition?
    - Precognition and/or remote viewing: Possible intuitive ability to see future events, or ones taking place at far distances (anecdotal; untested and unconfirmed)

BROOKE SPRINGER:
    - Incredible beauty (okay, not a superpower, but it might as well be based on how it works on me)
    - The uncanny ability to stomp on my heart with the slightest glance.
    He drew a line through that and aggressively erased it.
    - As for more specific powers???? Unknown (and what’s up with that?)
    He made note of Lyle’s powers as well:

LYLE OGILVY:
    - Telepathic attacks: ability to exert mind control and mental attacks
    - Evil disposition: a possible victim of mind control himself (courtesy of a Ride Along, one of the worst Never-Was monsters)
    - Also, bitten by a wendigo from the Never-Was. Ultimate effects of which are unknown—as are his whereabouts—but what I saw was nasty. Wherever he is, prognosis can’t be good.
    Will asked himself again, Where do these powers come from?
    His working theory: As a result of genetic manipulation performed on us during in vitro fertilization. As part of a secret medical/scientific program called the Paladin Prophecy.
    But it will remain just a theory until we find who did it, and why.
    Will hadn’t heard a single word or whisper from the one person who might have been able to answer that, his mysterious protector, Dave Gunner. Not a peep since Dave was pulled into a portal to the Never-Was while saving Will’s life (for the fifth time!). After taking a bite out of Lyle Ogilvy, the wendigo had dragged Dave back into that horrifying place with him. Will had no idea how Dave could have survived. And where he might be now if—big if—he had. Dave had explained to Will that he was already dead—killed in a chopper crash during the Vietnam War—so could anything worse even happen to him? Will kicked himself for never asking Dave if that meant he couldn’t be killed a second time. Would his guardian angel ever come to his aid again ?
    Because given the immense evil we’re about to declare war against, I’ll need all the help I can get. So where do we strike first? WHO’S AT THE EPICENTER OF ALL THIS?
    Will looked at what he’d