Chapter 26 - Mayhem“No!” I cried again, wanting to make the Were who held the gun on me disappear. But I couldn't do that sort of magic. “You need to stop NOW!” I wasn't sure what I was thinking right then, but I felt a burn in my chest that spread outward. The need to make her stop overwhelmed me. I closed my eyes and envisioned her turning into something solid, I don't know why. Ice came to mind first, but I rejected it quickly. No. Stone was better. More permanent. I saw Ilona as a granite statue in my mind's eye, and pushed the thought from the cosmos into reality. Beads of sweat formed on my brow and upper lip as I strained to visualize this as reality.
I heard someone take a breath and someone else gasped. I opened my eyes. Cho had shifted closer to me, but he was watching Ilona acr
