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a dope, I sat on the bed again and closed my eyes. I concentrated on Namere's face, though honestly the details were a little fuzzy. I'd avoided looking at her directly as much as possible. But I remembered her eyes, silver and gray, slightly different from the entirely silver eyes belonging to the female in my dream. And Namere wore her silvery white hair long but with bangs, another difference.

I was so focused that I almost missed the light tapping at my door. I opened my eyes and stared at the closed door across the room, like I could see through it to see who stood on the other side. I got up off the bed to answer the door. "If this is her," I muttered, "this is better than room service." I pulled open the door to find Namere waiting there, patiently. As soon as she saw me, her eyes dropped to the floor. And as soon as I saw her, I instinctively stepped back. Weren't we a pair?

"You called," she said. A statement, not a question.

"Yeah." I backed up a little further only this time it was to give her room to come in. "But how did you hear me?"

"I could feel it," she said, "pulling at my mind." I frowned. "Does it hurt?"

She looked up, then, startled. "Of course not." I shrugged. "Okay."

We stood there in silence for a few seconds. She still in the hallway and me in the center of the room. My brain slowly pieced together that a lack of invitation might be why she remained outside. "You want to come in?" I asked. She stepped in the room. I started toward her to close the door behind her, but still, whenever I got within a few feet of her, something inside me screamed, like all the nerves in my body standing on end at once. I stopped.

"Can you just, uh, close the door?" I backed away from her until the panicked sensation in me ceased.

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She did as I asked, then stood as far from me as possible in the small room. Over near the bed, I started to pace, a million thoughts at once tumbling through my brain. Should I trust her?

Could I trust her? Where to start explaining? What if she couldn't or wouldn't help me?

Finally, I stopped. Useless worrying wouldn't get me anywhere. Take a leap, I told myself.

"How much has Caelan told you about me?" I asked. She didn't look up from the floor. "That you are the human from his vision, meant to lead us against Nevan in victory."

"Okay," I said, thinking. "Nothing else?"

"No."

"All right." I tried to figure out how best to explain without revealing my major weakness: I had no idea how I'd done what I'd done to defeat Asha. And therefore had no clue about the scope of my own abilities, where they'd come from or how to control them.

"So here's the thing, I..." I trailed off when I noticed she still wasn't watching me. I realized I might have just committed another alien faux pas.

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