"I'm not thinking about anything… I'm just, um, sensing that the vampire demon is nearby." Mathena lied at the same time that she flooded her body with magic. It exploded from the center of her chest with a warm pulse. Power shot down her arm, centering in her fingers. They tingled and twitched as she fought to retain the heavy burst of emotion-drenched magic. The water in his groin responded instantly to her will, the molecules jumping to do her bidding. They grew colder, then even colder. "How the hell did you do that?" Xeon asked and was surprised. "I didn't know you had that ability?" "Trust me, Morningstar, there are things I don't enjoy sharing." "Like what?" Xeon’s eyes bulged out of his head, and shock took his expression from arousal to terror in under a quarter second. A sound

