14It turned out that I loved participating in training with everyone else. I joined in a session the very next day after Jim and I had made our deal, and soon I was levitating shifters, actually having to stifle delighted laughter that I could even do such a thing. Up to this point, the little boy I’d levitated to stop him from being hit by a car had been the heaviest thing I’d ever lifted, so I hadn’t really been sure I’d be able to handle a bear weighing several hundred pounds.
Now I knew I could, though it wasn’t exactly easy. I could only levitate bears for a few seconds at a time, just long enough to slow them in their charge of a group of Gifteds. During this particular training session, it was the bears’ turn to play the part of attacking Angels.
Tasha, whose gift was levitation a
