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"Hurry!" Kaitlyn gasped as she reached the top of the staircase And she added with her ht make more of an impression that way: Hurry

Fro as her own Felt it with a sense that wasn’t one of the ordinary five, but that was like seeing e

But sorateful for Rob’s presence in her low that warmed and steadied her She could sense hi through drawers and stuffing jeans and socks into a canvas bag

They were leaving the Institute

Not exactly the way they’d intended to, when they’d co psychic research project Kaitlyn had expected to leave the Zetes Institute next spring with a band playing, a college scholarship under her ar on proudly Instead, she was scraether and get out before Mr Zetes caught up with them

Mr Zetes, the head of the Institute, the one anted to turn thehest bidder

Only maybe now he just wanted them dead Because they’d found out what he was up to and fought back and beaten hiht sound, with all Mr Z’s power, they’d won They’d left him knocked out cold in the secret rooms of his San Franciscoto be ?" Anna asked, and her usually calm voice had a hurried sound

"I don’t know Clothes - waruess We don’t knohere we’ll be sleeping at night" Kait repeated the last thought mentally, so Rob and Lewis and Gabriel could hear Warm clothes, everybody!

A ht And et your hands on

"Always practical, Gabriel," Kaitlyn , recklessly piling jeans and sweaters and underwear on top of it She took her lucky hundred dollar bill out of a jewelry box on the dresser and jammed it in her pocket

"What else?" she said aloud She found herself grabbing crazy things: a velvet cap with gold embroidery, a necklace that had been herFinally she jammed in her smallest sketchbook and the plastic box that held her oill pastels and colored pencils She couldn’t leave without her art kit - she’d rather go naked

And her drawings weren’t just recreation; they were far more important than that They were how she told the future

Hurry, quick, she thought

Anna was hesitating, looking at a carved wooden mask on the wall It was Raven, the tote to take with them

"Anna"

"I know" Anna touched the blunt beak of the ers, then turned froh cheekbones "Let’s go"

"Wait - soap" Kait dashed into the bathrooli like as serene as Anna - her long red hair was in elflocks, her cheeks were flushed, and the strange blue rings in her eyes were burning smokily She looked like a feverish witch

"Okay," Rob said as they all met in the hall "Everybody ready?"

Kaitlyn looked at them, at the four people who’d becoined any people could be

Rob Kessler, all warolden eyes Gabriel Wolfe, arrogant and handso done in black and white Anna Eva Whiteraven, her expression gentle even under pressure Lewis Chao with his al a baseball cap onto soing out of control, they were linked by a telepathic web None of theain - unless they could find a way to break the link

"I want to get so

"Me, too," Rob said, "and I need Lewis to help All right, let’s get ht, Kait?"

"Just breathless," Kaitlyn said Her heart was pounding, and there was a shakiness in every limb that made her not want to stand still

Rob reached to take her duffel bag with the ruthless courtesy of his North Carolina lineage For just an instant their hands touched; his strong fingers wrapped around hers

It’ll be all right, he told her in a swift private co that flooded Kaitlyn was alnored the sparks that swarmed where he’d touched her skin

"Be careful, you - healer," she said and started down the stairs

Lewis kept glancing over his shoulder "My computer," he mourned softly "My stereo, et them?" Gabriel asked nastily "What could be , "Rob ordered At the bottom of the stairs he said, "Lewis, come with ?"

"Getting the files," Rob said grimly "Okay, Lewis, open that panel"

Of course, Kaitlyn thought Mr Zetes’s files, the ones he kept in the hidden room here under the stairway They were full of all kinds of information,

"But what can we do with them? Who can we show them to?"

"I don’t know," Rob said "But I want them anyway They prove what he’s been up to"