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mind?”
    He nodded. “I can, but I don’t. It’s a…violation of someone. All Leprechauns can do it. Their abilities start out around the age of twelve or thirteen, but it is the very skilled Leprechaun that can enter someone’s mind when they are awake, for you see, it’s easier to affect someone while they’re asleep. Cormac was especially skilled, but the one mind he couldn’t intrude on was his mother’s. She was still quite powerful.”
    “Are they still around?” she asked, fearful of such beings out in the world, with so much power.
    Mr. Quinn shook his head. “They may have been powerful, but they were mortal. They are long dead,” he said, waving his hand.
    Eva wasn’t sure. “Couldn’t they have found a way to cheat death?”
    “Many things are possible, Eva, but immortality? That’s quite farfetched,” he said with conviction.
    Eva tried to process all this information, but it wasn’t like learning basic math. It was nuclear physics.
    “So all the boys at this school—”
    “Green Clover Academy,” he reminded her, tapping the green shamrock on his shirt.
    “Oh. Okay, but why not the four leaf clover? Isn’t that lucky?”
    He shrugged. “That they say, but no one has ever found one…not at the school anyway. Shamrocks grow all around the school, and they only have three petals. It’s sort of our symbol…and mascot if we had a team.”
    “So…no sports at Green Clover?”
    “There’s P.E., but no, no sports which I know the boys hate, but there are more important matters to attend to—like their education, controlling their vanishing acts, teleporting.”
    “They can only do it when they’re nervous or upset?”
“At first, that’s how it happens, but as they master their feelings, it happens very rarely, and after some time, they can disappear, teleport, and reappear at will. It’s quite extraordinary,” he said, smiling. 
    “What about going inside people’s minds?”
    She hated to think that on her first day, all the boys tried to get inside her mind.
    “When Leprechauns are thinking of someone, and that person is sleeping, they can very easily link the two minds, and enter. But in the beginning, they become confused, and can’t find a way out. As they master this, Leprechauns can stay in a person’s mind while they sleep and affect their dreams. Very skilled Leprechauns—there have been a few—can enter a person’s mind in an awaked state. Very dangerous that skill.”
    “Have you ever done it?” she blurted out, and then slapped a hand over her mouth, embarrassed.
    He hesitated, but then said, “Not while someone was awake. That takes a strong desire on the part of the Leprechaun to invade the person’s mind—to inflict harm. Leprechauns can be a devious race, but we’re not evil.” He shrugged. “Well, not most of us. When I was younger, but in more control, I slipped into people’s minds—people I knew—and saw their dreams.” He smiled. “I was a bit of a rascal and sometimes I would interfere in a dream, or tell a girl I liked that she should choose me…things like that.”
    Eva was appalled. As a Banshee, she was forced to see people die, but Leprechauns, of their own free will, could go anywhere they wanted, and enter anyone’s mind. That was an abusive and terrifying power. 
    She held her face in her hands. “I can’t believe I’m going to live with such…such—”
    “What?” His voice was wary, but with a slight cold edge. 
    She turned to him. He was her elder and her new headmaster. She didn’t want to insult him, but she couldn’t help it.
    “Horrible people!”
    He turned away from her, staring at the seat in front of him. “We can’t help who we are, Eva, just as you can’t stop seeing death, but we have to accept it, and try to control it.”
    “But I don’t want to see people dying!” she exclaimed.
    Suddenly, the male flight attendant started walking their way.
    “Quiet!” Mr. Quinn ordered in a harsh