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it that I wobbled a little. My mom, who was standing next to me, grabbed my arm and made sure I stood there and didn’t fall.” He gave Kai an amused look. “That crystal mask is powerful, Kai. I’ll never forget the energy or what it did to me. It wasn’t bad. I felt really good—empowered and almost giddy afterward. Like someone had shot me full of adrenaline or something.”
    Nodding, Kai muttered, “That’s helpful. I remember my mother saying something about the mask, trying to teach me about it, but I ran out the door. I didn’t want to have anything to do with it.”
    â€œSo much for rebellion.” Jake smiled briefly. He saw some of the tension thaw from Kai’s face. Taking the napkin, he pulled a pen from his pocket and drew a rough sketch of a human being on it. Turning it around, he said, “Maybe this will be helpful to you. If you’ve seen this before, stop me, okay?”
    â€œOkay.” Kai looked down at what he was drawing.
    â€œThis is our energy system, from what I can recall. My mother taught me that there is a series of chakras or energy stations located in the first field out from our physical body. It’s called the etheric field, and it reaches three to six inches beyond our physical form, like a glove that fits tightly around our body. People who can see it say it’s light gray, and almost transparent. Embedded in this field are the energy stations, or what Hindu people refer to as chakras. Being vortices of energy, they’re circular and are often represented by a lotus or other flowers. Think of a fan or a propeller whirling around in the center of each.” Jake quickly drew seven circles on the human figure he’d sketched. “Now, each chakra is related to a different color. The color red pertains to the root chakra, located in the area of our tailbone.”
    Studying the napkin, Kai hungrily absorbed what Jake showed her. Maybe he wasn’t going to be such a pain in the ass, after all. She needed this kind of information to try and put together what she was receiving in her dream state. Pointing at the circle at the bottom of the figure’s spine,she said, “Well, what does all this mean? How does the crystal Paint Clan mask fit?”
    â€œI don’t know, Kai. I wish I did. I just know that the mask made me dizzy—” he tapped the head of the figure he’d drawn “—so that tells me it had something to do with my crown chakra. My dad, who was a fighter pilot, really tried to stop my mom from telling me this stuff. So she’d slip me the information when he wasn’t around.” He grinned. “She didn’t take no for an answer.”
    â€œI’m glad she didn’t. She was much more of a fighter than my mother was.”
    Jake gave her a tender look. “Under the circumstances, Kai, there was no way you could really live in that house with your father like he was. You had to run every chance you got in order to survive, and even then he still got his hands on you. And your mother…well, she took his beatings and I’m sorry about that…sorry about what he did to both of you….” Jake didn’t want to get into how much seeing Kai battered had torn him up. He’d been a child himself, unable to do anything but hold her after the fact.
    Pain flashed through her heart. If Jake had mentioned her past in any other tone she’d have lashed out at him. Instead, she whispered, “Look, let’s just stick to what you know, okay? I feel like we’re two halves of something. Maybe…just maybe…with my dreams and your knowledge of our medicine ways, we’ll know what to do with this and where to go. Together, we make a circle. We’re complete….”
    â€œI think we’ll make a good team, Kai,” Jake said sincerely. “So we’re heading for Australia, to Ayers Rock, to find this Aboriginal