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they entered the
clearing, did not cause her to become alarmed.
    Audrianna
backed up, mere feet away from the edge of the cliff. She faltered and dug her
feet into the ground, and her arms lifted responding to inner machinations out
of her control. Her hands cupped together, drawing apart to reveal a small ball
that crackled with electricity. The ball began to pull swirls of air into it as
it started spinning, becoming bigger. It fashioned itself into a glowing,
humming orb of uneven shape.
    The
combatants encroached on the space between themselves and Audrianna. Audrianna
stood squarely; the darkly-clothed men took another step closer. They were not
more than five feet away when the ball stopped its out-of-control spinning and
slivers of very sharp, very white electric current crackled and burst from its
surface. It happened too quickly for the men to raise arms against her; a burst
of electricity crashed into every man. Remarkably, they were not shocked- instead,
their bodies became elongated, pulled and stretched.
    Each
body was a distorted, massive swirl which appeared to be sucked into a vortex
of spiraling white light. Into each individual vortex, the men vanished, along
with their assault rifles.
    Audrianna,
her mind unclear, became aware of the approach of another interloper to her
right. She clapped her hands together and drew them apart to reveal the
formation of another small ball, which had only just begun to spin drawing in
tuffs of air.
    Viktor
glimpsed Audrianna. It was just the two of them in the clearing. He saw her
harnessing the powerful element in her hands and was awed by it. He thrilled at
the sight of the orb the woman he loved formed. But even as the thrill
enveloped him, he was realized that the power she possessed was now focused on
him. His heart raced and his shoulders tightened as he inhaled a ragged breath
through clenched teeth. and bellowed to her, “Audriannaaaaaa!”
    A
flash of lightning escaped the orb, shot through the air with great speed in
Viktor’s direction, and just as quickly stopped without reaching him.
Audrianna’s arms fell to her sides.
    Viktor
fell to his knees, relieved beyond compare. He prayed no one else had seen what
had just transpired.
    Dear
God, let me keep this secret just a little bit longer…
    “Squaaaaaaaaak!”
A bird’s hollow cry was heard as it burst from the tree behind him, expanded
its wings and glided over the bluff, seconds before the helicopter was heard
above, advancing towards the clearing.
    The
chopper was now over them. Xin and the girls had just come into the vicinity of
the ravine. Viktor stood. He watched the glass of the helicopter cabin door and
was not surprised to find Lincoln and Matsenêstse.
    Her
mind in a daze, confused about her surroundings, Audrianna staggered backwards.
     
     
    “Holy
shit!” Lincoln unbuckled his seatbelt. “Mat, get me on top of her-right on
top!”
    Mat
could foresee what Lincoln’s intentions were, and he positioned the aircraft
above. “Lincoln,” Mat said as he attempted to stabilize the swaying helicopter
as smoothly as possible. “You sure about this? Remember, penny packets go
splat!”
    Lincoln
looked at him with a sardonic smile and gave him a thumbs up. “No parachute, no
rope, no helmet – no problem.”
    Looking
back down at the deep ravine, covered with protruding foliage that hid the
bottom of it from view, Lincoln wondered silently what the delay might be
before he did go splat.
     
    Viktor
wanted to use his power to save Audrianna from falling over, but Lincoln and
Matsenêstse were two humans in his employ to whom he was loath to reveal the
supernatural. They knew nothing of werewolves, vampires, demons…he didn’t feature
being in their debt for keeping his secrets. He had never trusted a human with
such a secret of the ‘supernatural underground’ before, and he wasn’t going to
start now. Viktor raised his hands to urge his group not to move. “Find your
way back, I’ll take