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she said into her phone as she walked out of the room.
    I turned my attention back to Nicholas. “So what do you know?”
    “What do I know...Well, for starters that little buzzing connection you two have is going to kill you if you can’t tone it down, ” Nicholas said, clearly amused with himself. My face fell as he continued, “it’s not necessarily your closeness that will do it, though, so much as making that little connection of yours heat up. The more the electricity that flows between you two, the more energy the star loses and the more energy you two lose. And if you lose too much you both die.”
    “How do you know all this?” I stammered. “How do you even know about the electricity?” Hardly anyone knew about that.
    “Stephan informed me when he marked me.” He glared down at the black triangle tracing the red symbol tattooed on his arm.
    “But how does Stephan even know about our connection?” I glanced at Alex. “Did you tell him?” Alex shook his head. “I didn’t tell him…” His gaze wandered to the doorway of the kitchen. “Dammit, Aislin.” Aislin peeked out, the phone still pressed to her ear.
    “What?”
    Alex scowled at her. “You told Stephan about the electricity?”
    Aislin pulled an oh-crap face. “I’m on the phone,” she hissed and ducked back into the kitchen.
    I took a deep breath, struggling to keep my freaking out contained. “So if we can control the electricity and keep it to a bare minimum, then we won’t die?”
    Nicholas raised an eyebrow skeptically. “Can you control it?”
    I met Alex’s eyes, and sparks instantly crackled like a wildfire. Could we control it? Maybe…if we could keep our emotions and intense looks contained.
    “I think we might be able to,” I said, my eyes locked on Alex, who seemed to be waiting for my answer.
    “Of course we can,” he said as if it were the easiest thing in the world. Lucky him, because I had a feeling it was going to be difficult. At least for me it was.
    “So we go inside the mapping ball, find out what vision my dad changed and then what?” I asked. “I mean, I still don’t get how I erased and recreated what happened to me on the beach…I mean there was two of me.”
    “That’s where everything becomes tricky.” Nicholas grabbed the mapping ball from Alex’s hands, got up, and walked toward me. Alex started to get to his feet, but I shook my head, telling him to stay put. “You see the thing about visions,” Nicholas sat down on the couch beside me.
    “Is that everything is connected to each other.” I scooted away from him. “I’m not sure what you mean?” Nicholas stared down at the mapping ball. “In the Foreseer world, every vision is connected.”
    “Okay…” Where was he going with this?
    Sensing my confusion, he explained further. “Say you make the decision to become a singer, so, you go down to the local talent show and try out, win, and go on to become a famous singer.”
    “But I can’t sing,” I told him, even though I knew he was talking hypothetically.
    He flashed me an annoyed look as he went on, “Each one of those events that took place would be their own vision. The decision, the trying out, and the winning—all of them led to you becoming famous.”
    “I still don’t get what you’re saying.”
    “I’m saying they’re all connected to one another—each one had to happen in order for the other one to happen.” Ding . The light bulb in my head finally turned on. “So if I never made the decision to become a singer, then none of the rest would have happened.”
    “Exactly,” Nicholas said. “And if a Foreseer wanted to change your life, he could just alter the first event and it could change everything from that point on. Say he put the idea in your head to become a ball erina, and on your way to trying out, you left a minute later because you had to put on your tutu. And because you left one minute later you get in a car accident and die.”
    Yeah, like I