I reached up and tugged the hat down, having forgotten I was wearing it at that point. I figured I’d made Jeremy a promise, and I needed to keepit.
‘Okay. Can Master Aki help find mybody?’
That was actually smart of Ronnie. Master Aki had always had a sixth sense, so if anyone could find my body, it washim.
Damien didn’t answer my question, and it was then that I realized his wording. Jeremy was getting live readings from my hat, andthat’swhy they called Master Aki. Not to find mybody.
‘What kind of readings is Jeremy getting?’I askedhim.
Silence.
‘If you ever want to get laid again, you better start talking, bud.’I brought the hammerdown.
‘Kit… it’s still a theory.’Damieninterjected.
‘Damien!’I roared in myhead.
‘Okay, he thinks you can shape matter, bend time, move objects with your mind, all of it. He said it looks like your brain isn’t even human,’Damienexplained.
Fear zipped through me at his words and I gulped.‘I am human,’I declared. I needed to hear thewords.
‘I know, obviously… but something changed in you when they landedand…’
I was losing the connection, my panic making me loseconcentration.
‘Damien?’
‘Will be there in two hours. Set your watch,’he saidfinally.
‘Okay, I’ll contact youthen.’
They were going in without me. That meant either Ronnie or Damien would be the leader, and Lord knew where their minds would bringthem.
I had to bepatient.
Thirteen
Patience was not my virtue.I sat in my den, eating cookies and chewing all my fingernails off, until two hours had passed. I’d asked Dawn to meet me back at sky home in exactly two hours. Now, I was praying like all hell that my friends would drop in within an hour or two of flight from my den so I could seethem.
Once two hours and five minutes had passed, I sat next to Dawn on the little landing strip of blueish grass on sky home, and took three deep breaths. Then I searched for Damien’s energy within this world, sending out my feelers, but came back with nothing. Trying not to get discouraged, I then searched for Ronnie. My best friend had an energy that I would be able to find easily if she was nearby. My heart nearly jumped out of my chest when I sensed her, there in the DreamWars.
‘Ronnie!’I shouted, so excited to have connected withher.
‘Kit! Are you okay?’she askedme.
‘I’m fine. Is Maxine with you? Dawn thinks she can find her.’I could sense Ronnie was in the Dream Wars but didn’t know herlocation.
‘Yes, she just dropped in.’Ronnie’s reply was immediate.‘We’re near one of the Galadria feeding lakes. We’re safe fornow.’
They were near a lake? That was perfect. There were only a few in the Dream Wars, and Dawn knew them all because that’s where she went to eat anddrink.
I relayed the information to Dawn, and she simply nodded and then went completelysilent.
She was quiet for a whole two minutes, and I was about to speak when her eyes popped open.‘I know where red hair is,’shestated.
Tears leaked from my eyes as I pumped my fist in the air. ‘Let’s go get ’em.’I climbed onto her back, the files tucked under my arm. I wanted someone else to look at them, help me sort through the info, and try to commit it tomemory.
A few of the three-foot-tall younglings had come to see meoff.
