Malia didn’t know how she had gotten here. One moment she was thinking of the little getaway they had never wanted to leave and how things had been perfect before they all came crashing down and the next she was standing in the clearing next to the koi pond. Well apparently she could pop back and forth like a genie she thought sarcastically. “As if a genie could ever be as precise in their teleportation as we are!” The voice in her mind was appalled at her comparison of them to a genie. Malia startled at first at the voice and then reminded herself that she was being silly. That voice had been an almost constant companion in her life now that she thought about it. When she was little she had been in constant company with her imaginary

