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Victoria was torn, but the lure of hot coffee was too strong.“I’ll just put this meat away,” she said with a nod of thanks to Camriel.She could feel his eyes on her back as she picked up the container and carried it to the cabin.She returned to the group and fell into step next to Grace.Zoe was on the kid’s other side.
“Why didn’t you drive here instead of walking the whole way?”the teen asked.
“I don’t know how to drive,” Vic confessed.
“I’ll teach you,” Grace said eagerly.
Victoria was skeptical about that.“Are you even old enough to drive?”
“I’m eighteen,” Grace said indignantly.“I just look younger.”
“How old are you, Vic?”Zoe asked.“I’m twenty-five,” she added.
“I’m twenty-four,” Victoria replied.“How old are the aliens?”
Amaros and Camriel were in the lead, giving her room so she didn’t feel trapped.
“They’re billions of years old,” Grace told her.“They’ve been fighting the Soldiers of Chaos ever since the planet was created.”
“Bull shiz,” Victoria said with a laugh.None of them laughed with her.“You’re not kidding, are you?”she asked.
“Like I said, we have a lot to talk about,” Zoe said.
“How many of us are there?”Vic asked, pointing at herself and the two girls.
“Only twenty,” Grace replied.“Chaos let its dogs loose just long enough to knock our moms up before locking them back up in the Void.”
Victoria shook her head in bewilderment.“I feel like I’m losing my fudging mind.At first, I thought maybe I was half werewolf or something because I’m so strong and fast and I can do that trick with my dreams.It turns out I’m half alien instead.”
“What trick can you do with your dreams?”Grace asked, almost tripping over a clump of grass.Zoe caught her before she could fall into the lake.
“Ever since puberty, I’ve been able to freeze my dreams and move around in them,” Vic said.“Something weird has happened twice this past week,” she said in a disturbed tone.
“You were dreaming when I saw you appear in front of me, weren’t you?”Camriel turned around to ask.
“Yeah,” she confirmed.“It freaked me out when you spoke to me.Phul did the same thing.He called me his offspring.”
“Your talent sounds so cool,” Grace said enviously.“All I can do is steal things that are important to people.”She held up the sickle that should have been attached to Victoria’s belt loop.
“How the hell did you get that from me without me seeing you?”the wrestler asked in confusion.
“I think she can use telekinesis,” Zoe said with a grin.
“We think you can astral project,” Grace told Vic as she handed her back her weapon.“It makes sense, if you were sleeping both times it happened.”
“Maybe,” Victoria said, tying the reaping hook to her belt loop again.She didn’t know much about her skills, only that she was the only person she’d met who could manipulate her dreams.She couldn’t wait to hear the answers to the questions that had been plaguing her for her entire life.Finally, she would find out exactly why she was so different from everyone else.
