tightly by the wrists and shook her head.
?That won?t work on me,? she said. Electricity danced across her
flawless face, making her long, blonde hair crackle and fluff, and
circling the pupils of her warm brown eyes.
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?Oh my god,? Helen said, looking at the heart-shaped charm that
fell neatly into the groove at the base of her attacker?s throat.
The woman ripped off Helen?s identical necklace with one hand
and jabbed a needle into her neck with the other. Helen felt her
muscles go limp and refuse to follow her commands. The world
faded into a pale gray haze, and even though she kept trying to see,
her eyes could only chase the bright squiggles that tracked across
the backs of her eyelids. She was losing consciousness so fast,
Helen knew that she had to have been given a powerful drug,
maybe even a lethal one. The last thing Helen felt was her attacker
tenderly supporting her body as it swooned to the floor. Helen
couldn?t see, couldn?t move, but for just one moment longer she
could still hear.
?My sweet little girl,? the woman whispered, and then Helen experienced
nothing, not even nightmares.
Lucas was only halfway home when the wind tried to throw him
down to the ground and the sky started to flash with the first bolts
of lightning. He landed immediately, and had to go the rest of the
way on foot rather than get electrocuted or crushed. He wondered
if Helen could fly through the lightning and if she would be able to
control it so that he coul
d fly with her in a storm if the situation
ever arose. That would be beautiful, he thought as he walked
through the garage and into the kitchen, flying through lightningbright
clouds.