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and put his hands on her shoulders. “Can you feel the heat of my hands?” She concentrated at the peculiar sensation of physical contact. She had been touched more in the last two days than in all the years of her life.
    Denhar’s hands were humming with heat, and her body was feeling it in more places than her shoulders. “Yes, I can feel it.”
    “Now, gather your energy and slowly push me away.”
    Pushing him away was the last thing she wanted, but she tried. She gathered her power and felt it build inside her, but she couldn’t push his hands away. “It isn’t working.”
    “Then, we will have to use the training method that we all learn with.” He stepped away from her and walked across the courtyard. When he was fifty yards away, he turned and nodded briskly as if steeling himself for what he was about to do.
    He held his palms together at a right angle and a ball of energy formed. Solar’s eyes widened as she realized what he was going to do, and when the ball came toward her, her reflexes kicked in.
    Solar raised her hands to catch the ball, and when she did, the shock sent her tumbling backward to skid to a halt ten feet back.
    “Ow.” Grunting, she got to her feet, and she was no sooner facing Denhar than he fired again.
    This time, her hands covered themselves in power a moment before the orb struck. She stumbled, and when he fired again, she was ready for him. This time, the orb skittered across her energy shield and ploughed into the ground next to her.
    Her power built around her, and when the next six orbs struck her, they shattered on impact.
    Haringk appeared at Denhar’s side and handed him a crossbow.
    Solar gasped in shock when he calmly aimed at her and pulled the trigger. Time slowed as the bolt came toward her and struck the shield a foot from her body. Her energy field crackled and swirled around her, visible to her for the first time in her life.
    Haringk gave Denhar another object, and this time, a bullet came at her, aimed at her thigh. With a reflex entirely new to her, power wrapped around and held the bullet away from her. When she was sure it wasn’t moving, it dropped to the ground. She sat down suddenly with shock zipping through every vein in her body.
    “I didn’t know I could do that.” Denhar lowered the gun, returning it to Haringk before walking toward her. “How do you feel?”
    She crafted a light orb and shot it at him, striking him in the knee. “You could have warned me.”
    He winced and continued to limp toward her.
    “Attackers don’t warn you.”
    She nodded. “Fair enough. Help me up?” He extended his hand and helped her to her feet. She stood under her own power and slammed into him. He grunted and grabbed her around her hips. “What happened?” She clutched at his shoulders. “I wanted to see if my field would retract when I touched you. Oddly enough, it did.”
    His body flared with heat, and some fascinating reactions were occurring in those darkly snug trousers. He cleared his throat and gripped her shoulders, pushing her back. “Are you willing to field test your new skills?”
    She blinked as cool air rushed between them.
    Something had started to spark between them, and it left her confused when it was stopped before it could get any momentum.
    “Of course. My skills are useless if they don’t get a workout. It has been a few days since I chased a human through a portal.” She smiled brightly, but her mind was focussed on the feel of his hands on her hips and his body against hers.

Chapter Eight
    S he stood next to him as he opened a portal.
    “You know where we are going?”
    “Oh yes. The queen’s Guards are in charge of monitoring the fabric of space. We noticed the dimensional rifts immediately but were under the assumption that they would close naturally. They did not, and the humans kept coming, so we kept watch.”
    “So, we are going in on foot?”
    “You can’t fly, and I am rather obvious when I do, so yes, we are going