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super power.
    What super power would she possess? In
pointless thought, Kendra pondered the great powers from telekinesis to
superhuman strength.
    After a few moments of shadow sparring,
faintness hit her. She felt very hot as an invisible force hit her chest. She
stumbled back with a heavy groan, but shook off the dizziness. Though the barn
remained visible around her, visions of a gloomy forest with red and white bolts
of light created a transparent, altered world.
    Kendra gasped, forgetting to breathe.
She found herself in the middle of a thicket of trees in the woods near a park
at the city’s limits. Twilight hit the horizon, and a red sun unleashed
brilliant rays of pink and purple across the darkening skies. The lack of wind
didn’t help the unmistakable Texas heat. She glanced up and tilted her head at
the figures of three moons in the distance. She creased her brows at the
abnormality.
    Loud cries and yells grabbed her
attention. She twisted her upper body to the right. Streaks of visible energy,
of colored lightning, zapped before her in horizontal blasts. The flashes
lashed after men in black, bringing them to their knees in agonizing pain as
bursts of burning flesh warped her senses. They fried alive!
    Kendra’s mouth dropped in horror. She
never experienced such brutality. Her stomach churned, and her body encouraged
a visceral reaction to the barbaric act. What monster was behind this?
    She jerked her head in the direction of
the heat’s origin, surprised to find the young man from her deliriums throwing
down the bolts of heat as if tossing sand to the wind. He clenched his teeth
and pulled back his lips in an animalistic snarl. The glowing white energy
seeped from his pores and gathered at his fingers.
    Kendra didn’t understand, but connected
this to another scene from her nightmares where the energy licked her flesh and
her features resembled Liam’s.
    An expression of disconcerting surprise
washed over Liam as if he didn’t expect her to experience his world, at least
not in this way.
    “What is this?” she asked.
    “Kendra?” He took a step toward her.
    She shook her head and closed her eyes
tightly. When she reopened them, she found herself standing alone in the barn.
Then the tremors began. Her body trembled. The barn shook. A sudden wave of
panic hit her. How could it happen again?
    Her heart raced; her breathing
increased. She stood, fully prepared to bolt, but she remembered her
hallucinations. As if they were messages instead of figments of thought
generated by her mind, she obeyed. She wouldn’t run this year. Kendra would
stay and have a faceoff with reality.
    The barn shook with more ferocity than
she remembered as a child, but it invoked just as much fear. She must’ve been
insane! She had to get out of here, and fast!
    Gaining balance by spreading her feet
apart, she ran toward the barn entrance. She unlocked the door as fast as she
could. Kendra managed to pry the door open, but before she could maneuver
through, it slammed shut without her doing. She jumped and stared wide-eyed at
the wooden barrier, the only thing that stood between her and safety. She had
nowhere to run.
    “I asked you not to run.” The familiar
voice demanded her attention.
    Kendra spun to face Liam. He stood with
arms at his sides, his brows creased, and his lips pressed so that the muscles
in his jaw stood out. He appeared from nowhere, but he was definitely here, and
she was definitely not asleep.
    Liam made a wide circle as he crossed
the floor in pursuit of the young woman. Kendra instinctively moved back and
toward the glowing white light of what appeared to be a swirling portal, like a
sheep herded through the pasture.
    Liam kept his eyes locked on hers. “I
asked because Julie needs your help…and I need to see you.”
    “What’s wrong with her?”
    “She’s in danger. Only you can help
her.”
    “Stop talking about her like she’s
alive!”
    “We are alive,” he snapped. “You