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    Raven nervously looked down both directions of the hall. Most of the students had already left. Only students with cars or those in after-school activities remained. The nearest student was at the other end of the hallway. But how could she distract the other secretary? Raven knew she needed a plan and a quick one before the other woman returned.
    She could set off the fire alarm, but that was drastic and she’d be in trouble if anyone found her still in the building. What about locking the woman temporarily in one of the office side rooms? Raven had learned how to manipulate locks when she forgot her house keys one too many times and hadn’t placed the spare key back under the red flower pot. After the third time, she became pretty good at manipulating the metal and rotating it to the right location to unlock the door.
    Raven nervously checked the hall one more time and decided that if she was really going to do this, she’d better do it now. She peeked around the corner so she could see into one of the side office rooms. A plant sat on top of a large metal filing cabinet. Raven took a few deep breaths. To manipulate the elements, she had to connect and feel the energy. That was difficult with her heart behaving like she had just run a 400 meter run. Calm down. Calm down. She repeated silently to herself. Her heart slowed and she began to feel the energy flow through her.
    She reached out toward the filing cabinet and used the energy to move it. First, it was just a minor vibration, but soon, the cabinet began shaking as if it were in the middle of a major earthquake. The cabinet already made a racket, causing the secretary to look up from her desk in the direction of the noise. But from her angle she couldn’t see the filing cabinet. A couple seconds later, the plant atop the cabinet had been jostled to the edge and fell off producing a crashing sound as it hit the desk below breaking into many pieces. The woman got up and hurried to the room as fast as her old legs would carry her.
    Once the woman was inside the room, Raven reached out with the energy to gently rotate the door hinges until the door closed. She tried to do so quietly hoping the woman would remain distracted by the broken pot and resulting mess to not notice the door. Next, she focused the energy at the door knob. The inner portion of the door knob heated up and melted, deforming it just enough to prevent it from rotating to open the door, but not so much that it would be too hard to reform it. Thankfully, the door didn’t have a window. Raven hoped the secretary would be busy dealing with the mess for at least a couple minutes before she noticed she was locked inside and began calling for help.
    Taking one last glimpse down the empty hallway, Raven hurried into the office and to the door of the student records room. Placing her hand against the door’s lock, she reached out with the energy toward the metal elements. It was like she could see the pieces inside the lock, but she visualized it with senses other than her eyes. She could see it in her mind. Having practice, she could unlock her house door in seconds, but this one wasn’t familiar and thus she rotated some sections too far. The nervousness certainly wasn’t helping either. Any sound she heard caused her to jump making her move pieces too far.
    Finally, she unlocked the door, quickly slid inside the room, and closed the door behind herself. The door had no window so no one would be able to see her. But she also wouldn’t be able to see anyone coming. Thankfully, she had a gift for sensing other people’s energy. Mr. Hamilton claimed her ability was very rare, but it seemed to her to be a fairly boring and unimpressive talent. Elementers had different gifts even within the same element, and simply being able to sense other people keenly seemed like a rather lame talent. But at least it might prove helpful here.
    Raven suddenly