Sure, they were stronger and faster than humans, a lot stronger and faster than humans, and all their senses were enhanced. They could see better, hear better, their sense of smell was better. Turning into bats and leaping over fifty-foot buildings? Not so much. Although she had to admit, the ability to turn into a bat would be real useful right about now, if only for the echo-location. No, their abilities, when honed, were more in the mental spectrum. lot She grinned at her own thought. Yeah, she was in a different mental arena all right. There was no one waiting in the darkness of the stairwell. At least, if there was, they weren’t breathing or making any other sound, even a heartbeat. Even the RAs, who had neither a heartbeat nor needed air, made some sort of sound. Usually, in their

