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got!" Nina put her head on Rose's shoulder and wrapped her arms around the shaking woman trying to hold her tight and close. "I'll help you as best I can."
    By this time everyone in the harem had come to witness the spectacle, for they could all feel the draw to her spot. Nina could sense eyes on her back but she quickly washed those thoughts away and tried to help Rose. The naarabian’s entire body was glowing bright and she was breathing heavy with rapid, ragged gasps. In her mind she saw the door Rose was referring to because she had physically seen the door herself near the home of her people. In her mind there was no doubt of Rose's part in this play. After a while she felt more than saw the door that Rose had described swing shut with a bang that knocked them both to the floor and caused several of the girls around them to stagger backward.
    Nina recovered quickly and rushed over to Rose, she noted that the glow had subsided and her breathing was steady. Sighing in relief she put her hand on the furred forehead of her friend. "Are you still with me?"
    "Blood and sands, I feel like I am going to burn from the inside out." Rose said with a grimace across her features. "What happened to me, what did I do wrong?"
    "You didn't do anything wrong, I miscalculated your capacity. Your body attempted to absorb more energy than it was used to. The more you use it the easier it will become and the more you can absorb." Nina brushed her hand down the side of Rose's cheek. "I'm sorry; you could have been seriously hurt."
    "It's alright but when does the burning stop?" Rose sat up and crossed her arms over her chest, bending at the waist and leaning forward. "It hurts."
    "You absorbed too much, you have to release some of it. Your magical energy is like a fountain or in your case a waterfall, if you want to release it all you have to do is lift the dam and let it flow. Usually you would do that in the form of a spell or incantation but I don't know if I should let you try one with the amount of power you have stored." Nina scratched her chin with one hand and looked down at Rose. She had to think fast, it wasn't good for someone to hold in so much energy for long. "Okay, I have an idea I want you to make yourself invisible."
    "What?" Rose said in astonishment. "How do I do that?"
    "Magic and psychic powers are all based on imagery and visualizations. Some of them require hand gestures and movements. The more powerful you are and the more power you have the less you have to do to manifest a spell." Nina paused for a moment to let that sink in. "Take a chunk of the energy within you and put it to the side, turn it into a transparent shroud or blanket and imagine that you're putting it over your head. Let it cover your entire body, just drop it over your head and let it fall around you. You have to feel it happening."
    "I'm trying." Rose said through gritted teeth. After a moment she looked up in astonishment and breathed a sigh of reprieve. "The pain is subsiding, what a relief."
    Rose noticed that everyone around her was staring at her. Looking down at her body she noticed that she wasn't there. She was completely invisible and so was Nina because she could not see the elf ether. "Did I use too much?"
    "Seems so." She heard Nina laugh in her light flitting tone. "You can cancel it now. Just cut the strings to it."
    "Cut the strings?" Rose said in a questioning tone. "I don't understand."
    "Just pull the blanket off of us or let it dissipate."
    Rose attempted to follow Nina's instructions for at least ten minutes or more before she finally figured out how to turn off the magic. She scratched her head once she could see the little elf again and shrugged an apology. "Sorry, I'm new to all of this."
    "No don't be! It took me months to master magic but true to what I have read about your people magic is almost like breathing for you." Nina had a newfound respect for the naarabi if they could manipulate magic so easily. If one that had no