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name when she had just said it, in addition to the
fact that they could see one another.
    “ Yes, Xander,” she
somewhat sighed in mild annoyance. “What is it? I’m
busy.”
    “ We may have a problem,” he started,
dragging out his words. Loni pinched her brows together with a
slight groan. She’d left him alone for under 48 hours, and already
there was a problem.
    “ What kind of
problem?”
    “ I think I may have found
something.”
    “ Something like
what?”
    “ Well … Someone. Two of
them, actually. But where they’re two, I’m sure there are
more.”
    “ What are you talking
about?”
    Xander hesitated before
moving the communicator to the side, capturing the view of Nora,
who laid unconsciously on one of the sofas in Fran’s house. Loni’s
eyes squinted as she leaned forward, trying to get a better look of
the woman unknown to her.
    “ Who is that?” asked
Loni.
    “ I rescued her. I don’t
know who she is.”
    “ Rescued her from
what?”
    “ Who,” Xander corrected,
adjusting the communicator to face him. “He wasn’t human, and
neither is she. It looked like he was trying to kill her. I don’t
know why.”
    “ Where was
this?”
    Xander hesitated, not
wanting to give away where he had been visiting for the past two
days.
    “ At … one of the human’s
local communing buildings.”
    “ What were you doing
there?” Loni scolded. “We’re supposed to be –“
    “ Don’t worry about why I
was there. Worry about what I found, and what’s laying on – urgh!”
Xander grunted as a thick vine suddenly latched around his
neck.
    He dropped the
communicator and immediately reached his hands up to tug at the
thick plant. Loni’s eyes widened as she suddenly viewed Xander from
beneath him, where the communicator had fallen.
    “ Xander?” Loni screamed,
waiting for him to break free from the ambush. “Xander!” she
screamed again when she was not answered.
    Stuffing the communicator
back into the pouch, she zipped it back up before morphing, taking
the small bag into her mouth and taking off, using her exceptional
speed to hightail it to the house.

    At said house, Xander had
been turned around to face the now awake, alert and disarrayed
Nora. She had her honey eyes locked on Xander, her body curled up
at the far end of the sofa in what almost looked like paranoia. The
vine that was wrapped around Xander’s neck was coming from her
wrist, as he could now see. He patted it, almost lovingly as he
coughed.
    “ It’s okay. You’re okay,”
he wheezed. “It’s me – the one that came to help you.”
    It took a few seconds for
his words to sink through the jumbled mess that was Nora’s mind.
But once they did, her eyes widened, and the vine retreated,
letting Xander fall to the floor. Nora rushed off the sofa to his
side as he rubbed his red neck with his hand. Her hands hovered
apologetically over his body.
    “ I – I’m so sorry,” she
whimpered. “Are you okay?”
    “ Move,” Xander coughed in
response. Nora’s brows furrowed in confusion as he moved onto his
knees.
    “ What?”
    “ Move!” he shouted as he
pushed her back onto the carpeted floor.
    She looked up at him in
disbelief as he hurriedly got to his feet and spun around. Almost
on cue, his body collided with the overgrown lioness that came
charging into the room. Loni snarled as she attempted to claw
around Xander’s body at Nora, who squealed and promptly crawled
back. Xander’s heels dug into the floor as he was pushed back from
Loni’s force. His arms tightened around her torso as he fought
against it.
    “ Loni, stop!” Xander
ordered. “She didn’t mean it!” Loni roared again as she tried to
move Xander out of the way. But Xander was persistent. “Loni!”
Xander bellowed.
    Loni morphed, swooping
down to take her gun from her pouch and aim it at Nora, who was
cowering against the far wall of the living room.
    “ What are you?” Loni
demanded.
    Xander still stood
partially between them, though