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dark? Did you forget the witch following you the other day?”
    Skye smirks. “I can defend myself.”
    “I know.” I kiss her.
    She pushes me away gently and giggles. “I’ve got to go.” Then she opens the door and walks down the street while I watch her.
    My life has become awfully strange.
    I stay there for a few minutes, ignoring the chilly breeze. My eyes catch a girl walking toward my house. My little sister Mona. After she gained magical powers, she became gorgeous. She tries to hide her newfound beauty with the black outfits, but it’s still noticeable.
    “You just missed Skye,” I tell Mona when she climbs the front steps. “She was worried about you.”
    She passes by me and enters the living room. “I’m constantly worried about her well-being too. I mean, she dates you .”
    “Seriously, Mona. You know that Jane is out there, and she knows you’re the Singularity. And you walk home alone after dark. Couldn’t Pain’s parents give you a ride? You can call me too, you know? I’d pick you up at Pain’s.”
    She blinks a little too fast. “Aren’t you too freaked out?”
    “I just don’t want to see you getting hurt. Or worse.”
    I wish it was a joke. Jane tried to kill both Skye and Mona last month. Jane and the Night covens want to steal Mona’s uncanny powers. It’s just a matter of time before the Night witches come knocking and try to kidnap my sister.
    But Mona and Skye think it’s okay to wander Seattle’s streets alone.
    Mona drops her black purse on the sofa and leans on the wall. “You’re right, Drake.”
    Of all the weird things happening, my sister saying I’m right must be one of the strangest. “Are you serious?” I ask.
    She walks away from the wall and sits on the sofa. “I’ve been thinking. Skye gave me Shield and Protection potions, but I don’t know if they’re going to hold up when the Night covens come for me.” Her voice is surprisingly even.
    “ If they come for you.”
    Mona squints at me. “No. It’s when , Drake. Pain and I have been discussing it for a while. By now, Jane must have told the Night covens that I’m the real Singularity. They must be planning it carefully, in case I create another accidental earthquake again. Or another fire. They want to be ready. Then I’ll be taken, dead or alive.”
    Her matter-of-fact demeanor is startling. This is not the Mona I know.
    “I’m sorry that you have to go through this, Mona.”
    “It’s not your fault.” Her lips smile, but her eyes don’t. “I need to learn more from Skye. I need to use my own magic, so I know how to defend myself.”
    “If you use your magic, they’ll sense it immediately.”
    “There must be a way of doing magic and shielding the magical signature. If I’m as powerful as they say, I should be able to figure it out, right? I need to fight them on my own. I don’t want to put you all on the line again.”
    “I’ll help you. I’m your big brother.”
    She nods. “I know. For the record, you’re an okay big brother.”

Chapter 15: Skye
    Greta and I are at Yara’s house again. This time, Yara has closed the curtains on the sliding door. She shows me an orange plastic bag.
    “Here’s your order. Goddess, I feel like a drug dealer.”
    “Don’t say that,” Greta admonishes her.
    Yara looks at her and opens her mouth, but says nothing. She turns to me and removes a blue pillbox from the bag. “You asked for a lot of potions. It’d be a big volume, so I just pressed them into pills. Easy to carry, easy to store, easy to conceal.” She gives me a meaningful look.
    “That’s…genius.” I hold up a pill against the light. It looks like a multi-vitamin pill: gray with faint green dots. “I’ve heard of potion pills, but I’ve never seen them.”
    “I color-coded them so you’ll know how to differentiate: green are Shield; red are Protection; purple are Stamina; orange are Healing.”
    “What about the others?”
    “Since I imagined you would be the one