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Earth. Was this a glimpse of her future? Or had they been together in a past life or in another dimension? Was that why she had this overwhelming attraction toward him? Or was she just going crazy?
    Damn . She hated when the universe only gave her a tidbit of a vision. However, the good feeling stayed with her. In the distance, she heard Sara chatting away with Kole like she had known him forever.
    “ There's the High Mountain Array. With all those huge white disks spread across the valley floor it's quite a sight to see,” Sara said. “Other than that, there's not much around here.” 
    Elle came slowly back to the moment . Sara sounded less stressed. Kole had a calming effect on both of them.
    “ Oh, yes, the High Mountain Array,” he said. “The magazine wants me to go there.”  Kole glanced toward Elle. “I have to get a shot of those disks for sure. What can you tell me about it?” 
    Elle's dormant wits had recharged themselves with a surge of renewed energy . She leaned forward in the seat and pushed the vision to the recesses of her mind, then said, “Let’s see how well I remember the report I did on it back in high school. The Array covers the whole valley with twenty-seven dish-shaped antennas. Each one weighs two-hundred-thirty tons and each one is as big as a baseball diamond.” She laughed. “How’d I do?” 
    “ I’d say textbook fantastic. Wow, that’s a huge Array. I was told that astronomers come there from all over the world to study cosmic objects,” Kole said.
    “ Yes, that’s true. They look at the sun, our solar system’s planets and galaxies at the edge of the universe,” Elle added.
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    Kole laughed inwardly and bit back a grin. If you only knew. Other worldly beings have been to the High Mountain Array as well. He glanced in Elle’s direction. “That will be at the top of my list. I bet I could get some great shots of all those antennas at sunrise and sunset.” 
    He watched her closely . She didn’t have a clue as to who he was or why he had been sent to find her. Hard to believe this was the 13-year-old girl he’d met so long ago. She’d made such an impact on him when he was just a boy. And today he noticed the changes in her. She was all woman with curves in the right places. Sure, she’d been raised as an earthling, therefore her power probably wasn’t nearly as evolved. Still, there was a chance she might remember him. He watched her closely. If she did, she certainly didn’t give it away.
    Elle smiled and warmed to the subject . “They would make great pictures. You'd like Red Rock Canyon, too.”
    Passing under the streetlights, he noted the excitement in her voice, the gleam in her deep green eyes and the tiny dimple that appeared in her cheek when she smiled . A lock of hair fell across her face, brilliant, glistening, shiny as new-spun gold. He had the strangest urge to reach out and push it behind her ear. Passion leaked like an earthly fragrance from every pore of her body. Which he wouldn’t mind exploring, head to toe.
    Kole stiffened . He had to watch himself. Physical contact was no longer needed on his planet and forbidden with Starseeds. On his world, their brains had evolved to the point that it provided all the stimulation they needed. He’d never entertained the need for a physical relationship. Yet there it was, along with all the other things he was feeling and thinking since first setting eyes on her many years ago, and earlier this evening from the starship. He pulled his wayward thoughts together. What had she said? Oh, yes, Red Rock Canyon. “Is that the place with all the caves?”  Kole hesitated for a heartbeat. He didn’t dare let her suspect his interest in the caverns. “Do you know where they are?” 
    “ Oh, yeah, out near the Array,” she said. “But most are fenced off by the government.”
    Which fortunately can’t stop me . “Here we are.”  Kole changed the subject as they entered the city limits. He read the