Mara leaned back and looked Tyson over, ''Give me your hand.'' ''Why?'' He asked, as she placed her hand on the table. ''You said you wanted to give me something.'' She answered, ''Let me see if you have something worth taking?'' He frowned but handed my hand-over, and she held his hand tight. Mara began whispering something under her breath, and her eyes began to glow, and then finally, a smile spread across her face, and she pulled her hand back. ''Well now, this is interesting,'' She said, ''As it turns out, you do have something I'd like. Well, not you specifically. Lyra.'' ''What about her?'' I asked, as Dex began to growl. ''Keres wanted her power for a reason, but we all thought she'd died in that raid,'' Mara said, her eyes sparkling with excitement. ''What was the reason?'

