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I’m thinking its interrogation time. Can you handle it?”
    “Go
for it,” he said, taking a bite of his sandwich.
    “You
said the link between Guardians breaks on the day of a full moon. Is that also
true for the Ray-pacs?”
    He
nodded. “Works the same, and they need to re-link within a few days like us.”
He swallowed. “The way our lives run in cycles is rather convenient I suppose.
When a Seer is finally ready to link it always correlates with a full moon as
well.” He dumped some salsa on his plate and scooped some chips through it
before shoving them into his mouth.
    “Is
there any other way to break a link? Like if you wanted to, could you?” I
asked.
    His face
became grim. “No. The only way I know of is if the Guardian you’re linked with
dies. Apparently, it’s supposed to be very painful when the link snaps.”
    “Sounds
awful.” I shuddered. After taking a small bunch of grapes for myself, I passed
the bowl over to him, which he greedily accepted. “Another thing,” I said,
“even if you have several days to link, why would you wait at all? I mean, as I
understand it, you don’t gain your special abilities until you link. Plus, if
you wait that would make you vulnerable…make you like an ordinary person. Seems
to me like you’d want to re-link immediately.”
    He
stopped chewing and looked at me. In all seriousness, he said, “We usually do
re-link right away. But sometimes…it feels good to be…to be free and normal for
awhile. A day or two without Madison screaming in my mind is peaceful.” He
swirled a chip around in the salsa. “Then there’s Jessica.”
    “What
about her?”
    “If
it’s at all possible, Jessica likes to have a dinner before we all link again.
It’s the one time she can be with us and not feel different.”
    “I
don’t understand,” I said in confusion, pulling all my grapes off the vine.
    “Well,
it’s simple really.” He set down his sandwich and studied me. “When Guardians
or Ray-pacs are unlinked, they can touch an Amethyst and feel no pain. That is
the one time we can sit by Jessica, bump into her, or hug her and it doesn’t
hurt. She likes it that no one has to be on guard, but really, I think that’s
the one time she feels like she’s really part of the group.”
    “Seriously?”
My thoughts were going haywire, and something jogged in the back of my memory.
I remembered Laci saying something similar, but I’d been to lost in my own
turmoil to stop and consider what she was saying. This was incredible news.
    “But
Alex,” he said sternly and gazed at me with intensity, “those are the times you
are defenseless against the Ray-pacs as well. You will need to be very careful,
and you will always need to be aware from this day forward as to when the full
moon falls each month. Do you understand?”
    Oh
yeah, I understood just fine. “Uh-huh,” I muttered. I realized exactly when I
would need to infiltrate the Ray-pacs or let myself be captured by them. That’s
when I could try and link with them. According to history, the few Dentelle’s
who’d existed before me had never been able to successfully link. When they
had, it killed the person they’d been trying to link with, and the Dentelle had
died soon after as well. My plan was coming together, piece by piece.
    “When’s
the next full moon,” I asked excitedly, because I also understood that when the
moon was full Jason could touch me, and I wouldn’t cause him any pain. Now that
was something else to plan for.
    Misinterpreting
my excitement, he said, “Alex don’t worry, we won’t leave you alone or exposed
to danger. We will protect you.”
    “I
know, and I’m very grateful.” I smiled demurely. Guys could be so dense. “So,
when is it?”
    The
lines on his forehead creased, and I could tell he was trying to figure out
what he was missing. “We just had one last week, but the next one is Friday,
September 4 th .”
    “Good
to know,” I said quickly, taking a bit of my