Checking for him, of course. Sunlight bounced off the New York skyline and splashed across the table of the Excorp boardroom, while an annoying cadre of lawyers grinned at her from the other side. Everyone loved a closing. They would do a final read-through of the documents, put pen to paper half...
It was as if she was some kind of social chameleon. At the beach, when they first met, she’d been snappy and belligerent. When she entered the Bolvana studio, she turned into a stubborn, driven artist. At Tiger Lily’s, she became a seductress, a woman used to wrapping men around her little finger...
We went into the forest every day, and I practiced levitating trees, moving rocks, and bouncing Barrett up and down like a giant yo-yo. It was hard work. The heavier the object, the more energy I had to expend to move it. Still, they wanted me to do more than just knock things down and pick them ...