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sand, I immediately jump back into the vehicle.  “Wow, that’s hot!” I exclaim, and look down to make sure my sandal isn’t melted to my foot now.
     
    “Sorry, we should have warned you about the heat this time of day.  You’re going to want something more like this,” Eliana says, holding up her booted foot.  Taking her cue, Kallen changes both of our shoes. 
     
    “Man, that would be a handy skill to have.  I’d never have to do laundry again,” Josh laughs.
     
    Kallen smiles.  “There are definitely perks being a Fairy.”
     
    “This will help, too,” Eliana says as a cool, soothing breeze grows around us.  Nothing too drastic.  Just strong enough to take the edge off.  It already looks like she has better control over her magic than I do mine.
     
    “Who’s going first?” Josh asks.  He’s really into this.  Kallen looks like he’s been sucking on a lemon.
     
    “I will,” I say.  I stand next to him and put my hand on his arm.  In less than a millisecond, we’re twenty feet away from where we were.
     
    “What the hell!” he exclaims.  “How did you do that?”
     
    “Like this,” I say and I teleport us back to where Eliana and Kallen are standing.  Kallen gives me a ‘you’re being a showoff’ look, which I of course ignore.
     
    “Can you do that?” Eliana asks him.
     
    Kallen shakes his head.  “Again, that is unique to Xandra.”
     
    “Okay, my turn,” Eliana says with a smile.  She stills for a moment and I can feel her magic snaking under the sand.  I have no idea what she’s doing until a tiny water spout forms a few feet away from us.  “I’ve been practicing this.”
     
    Kallen’s face loses the sour expression.  “That is impressive.  The water you reached had to have been quite deep,” he says.
     
    “That is so cool!  I guess dehydration will never be a problem for you,” I tease.
     
    Eliana laughs.  “Nope.”
     
    “What about water from the clouds?” Kallen asks.  “Can you draw that down?”
     
    “I can, but that’s a little harder.  This water came from an underground river or well so all the water molecules were already together.  They’re dispersed in a cloud and I have to collect them from a larger area.”
     
    I think I get it.  “You said you have power over the earth too.  What does that mean?”
     
    “This can be a bit tricky,” Josh says.  “It’s unpredictable here in the desert.”
     
    “I’ll show you what he means,” Eliana says.  She concentrates on the sand in front of her and a path separates through the tiny grains until there are tidal wave-like sand walls on either side.  A low rumbling begins and the path is filled in with sand from the front and back.  I’m not quite sure what just happened.
     
    “The sand is fluid.  While Eliana held the sand sides up, other sand still found a way back like water would.  For her to make a true path, she would have to exert a noticeable amount of energy from all sides.  She can do it but it basically creates a wild sandstorm.”
     
    “Makes sense.”  I turn to my husband.  “Okay Kallen, it’s your turn.”  I smile at his scowl.
     
    With a defeated sigh, he nods.  Instantly, he’s gone.  He’s replaced by a black raven that soars into the sky.  Eliana and Josh are too stunned to even gasp. 
     
    “Fairies have animal forms,” I explain.
     
    “Then you mean he actually did turn into a bird and fly away?  It wasn’t just our imaginations?” Josh asks.
     
    Eliana pries her eyes away from Kallen’s black form in the sky.  “Do you turn into a bird too?”
     
    “No, and I’m not really very good at transitioning.”  I grimace as I recall the very first time in Dagda’s house in Giant territory.  Humiliation doesn’t even begin to cover it.  “I have trouble with magic that other Fairies can perform easily.  It tends to get blown way out of proportion when I do it.”
     
    “But you do have an animal form?”