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The guy that had lunged forward was now on top of me and I struggled to push him off. He took his time getting up and I panicked, trying to push him with my mind, but my Talent had failed me again.
Once he was standing I noticed that Nykolar had been transported too.
“What…?” was all I could manage.
Nykolar turned to the other man. “Nice work, Braydac. Good timing, too.”
I looked from one to the other. They’d planned this? “What do you want?”
“You, of course,” Nykolar said, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand.
I got to my feet, not wanting them to be towering over me anymore. It didn’t help that Sifayah was so short. “But, why?”
“You, my dear, are valuable, apparently.”
“To who?”
“Lots of scientists, for one. You are quite the anomaly. An enigma. Doctor Starrick’s big s
