Starcrossed (Starcrossed 1) - Page 179

Claire said as she veered away and raised her arm in a ?talk to the

hand? gesture.

From many years of experience Helen knew that Claire needed to

punish her a little before she?d be ready to move forward. Then

they?d talk on the phone, make up, and the next day everything

would be back to normal. Just this one time, Helen wished they

could skip to the end of the fight, especially since she hadn?t done

anything, but she knew better than to rush Claire. Instead, Helen

dutifully ran past her.

After a few minutes of running alone, Helen started to get bored

with the mortal pace. She looked at her watch to calculate exactly

how much time she would need to kill before making her way back

to the trailhead, and took off across the moors at an impossible

speed. She knew Lucas could simply step up into the air and start

flying, but so far that approach hadn?t worked for her. Maybe she

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needed to be running to get airborne, kind of like an airplane. Here

was a chance to test that theory.

As Helen struck out off the trail and through the marshy land

surrounding Miacomet Pond, she began to sense the lightness she

associated with flight. There was a fluttery feeling in her stomach,

a barely contained wildness that she assumed was an expression of

Scion power. She felt static energy running over her skin. It was as

if she had rubbed a balloon over her entire body and then held it

just far enough away so that her whole surface felt the outward tug

of an electrical field.

Taking an experimental leap, Helen soared up into the air. At

first she thought she had done it, that she was flying, but she soon

felt herself reach the top of a very large arc and begin to descend.

She had merely jumped higher than ever before?too high?and

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