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sides of the street taking away the option of simply
breaking and entering. This was, after all, a tourist area. The obvious
security system in the house, with at least one camera mounted above the door,
limited them even further.
    “So, what do you think?” Asteria
asked.
    “Well, I could teleport back
inside the room where we were held, I guess.”
    Asteria shook her head. “No way.
You’re not going in there alone. Besides, we don’t even know for sure if that
room is in this house.”
    Mirissa smiled. “Maybe we can
find out.” She grabbed Asteria’s hand and pulled her across the street,
hopefully out of view of the camera. There was an old ten-speed bike chained to
a tree and Mirissa knelt down beside it. Pretending to fiddle with a lock, she
once again expanded her auditory capabilities. She’d never tried to listen
through walls before but it couldn’t hurt to try.
    After a few moments of effort,
with only muffled voices at best, it became clear that the exterior walls of
this building were too heavy for Mirissa to penetrate. She then focused on the
windows. Pay dirt ! Through a large second floor window, Mirissa could
clearly hear two men talking.
    “I can hear them. There are two
men, both talking.  I can’t make out what they’re saying, but they sound
excited about something. Let’s go around to the back of the house and see what
else I can pick up.”
    There was a narrow alleyway that
ran the length of the block behind the townhouses. Each house had a cement
driveway leading from the alley to a double-car garage door. Again, Mirissa
focused on the windows—listening through each one until she finally gave up. “I
can’t hear anything but the same two guys. Gah! I need more windows.” That’s
when it hit her.
    The room where we were held
had no windows.
    “It’s got to be in the garage.
That’s the only place with no windows.” Mirissa focused on the metal overhead
door, straining to hear. “I can’t tell if anyone’s there. I can hear something
but it’s too faint to make out.” She took a deep breath and tried to increase
her ability. She could feel her heart beat in her ears. Just a little more. “I’ve
almost got it.”
    The pressure in her eardrums was
becoming unbearable. She knew she couldn’t sustain this for long, but she
needed to know if Greco was in there. She’d have one hell of an ear ache for a while, but he was worth it. And then she
heard his name. “I’ve got him! They’re in there.” Reining in her power, Mirissa
took a step toward the house.
    “That’s not going to work.”
Asteria held on to Mirissa’s arm and pointed to the back of the house. “You see
those cameras? Every inch of this building is covered by their security system.
I’m not saying we couldn’t get in, but they’d see us coming.”
    Mirissa finished Asteria’s
thought. “And they might hurt Greco and his mom.” She knew there was only one
way she’d be getting into that building. “I’ve got to teleport.”
    “Yep. And you’re taking me with
you.”
    “What? I can’t do that. Don’t you
remember?” A few weeks prior, Mirissa had attempted just that. At Greco’s
insistence, she’d tried several times to teleport both of them across the training
room. She held his hand, focused, and inevitably found herself alone on the
other side of the room. She then tried to expand her ability, like she did with
her senses, hoping to encompass Greco in whatever field she created when
teleporting. Not only had she failed, but the attempt also left her feeling
woozy and disoriented. They didn’t try again. “I’m not able to do it.”
    Asteria simply smiled. “And this
morning you weren’t able to teleport further than a mile. Your powers are
growing and you know it. If you connect with your ring like Greco’s mom told
you, maybe it’ll work.”
    “And maybe it won’t.” Mirissa
wasn’t worried about herself—she could handle a little wooziness. What she
couldn’t handle was