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looked into her blue eyes and put my right arm around her shoulders as I watched the road. “I promise, Melanie. I won’t risk my life for revenge.”
    “On the lower levels, inside Ice Harbor, are the generators and the turbines. It’s loud as hell. Behind the last generator is a passage. It looks like a wall, but it’s not. They get in with a handprint.”
    “Cle Elum.” I turned off the highway into town. Then I turned right, onto 970 heading toward Lookout Mountain. After a short drive on 970, I turned onto Lambert.  
    They were waiting for us.  

The Blackness

    A silver van shot out of the woods from the right and skidded to a stop in the middle of the road. I grabbed the wheel with both hands and turned left, hard, while pressing both feet down on the brakes. Mel screamed. We slid sideways into the van and slammed into it. The window on Mel’s door shattered from the impact.
    “This way, Mel. And get ready to run when I tell you.” I opened the driver-side door while unfastening my seatbelt and pulled her out of the car by her hands.
    “Oh God, Silas. How did they know?” Mel’s eyes were wide with fright.
    “I don’t know yet. This isn’t good.”
    I backed away from the wreck and pushed Mel behind me. “I’ll keep them busy while you run, Mel. Run and hide. Don’t let them find you.” I felt the crackling under my skin, and my scars started to pulse. I took a deep breath and let myself feel the dark.
    Three men dressed in black and wearing black masks got out of the van. They started to approach us. They were all wearing silver gloves and had guns strapped to their waists. Mel was behind me, taking steps backwards.
    I extended my arms and let my fingers point toward the ground. A circular spot of black appeared to my left. It was smooth as ice and dark as midnight. “Don’t touch the blackness, Mel. Never touch it. You understand?”
    “What is that, Si? How?” Mel was twenty feet back and watching the masked men with dread.
    The black spot expanded as I took a step forward. Light burst from the scars on my arms and hands. “It’s something I can do. Something bad, Mel. Get away from me.” The spot grew larger as I stepped in front of it. “When you healed me, you affected it. It’s stronger now. I don’t know if I can stop it.”
    “Take him down. We just need the girl.”
    I recognized the low voice of the stocky man standing in the middle as all three of them advanced toward me.  
    “Give up now or someone is going to get hurt,” I said. The smooth circle expanded behind me like a pit of nothingness.
    Low voice laughed. The other two men charged me. I dodged left, grabbed the first one’s arm, and threw him up in the air. He landed in the middle of the blackness and vanished. Only the tips of his fingers were outside the circle of darkness. They lay on the road, twitching. The laughter stopped abruptly.
    “Run, Mel! I can take care of this.”  
    “Si. Oh God.” Mel took another step backwards.
    I caught the second masked man on the chin with an uppercut and then ducked as he shot over me, flailing with both fists. The blackness cut him off at the knees as he fell across it. There was no blood on the stumps that remained; they were sealed over like wax. The huge scar on my chest was glowing red hot, and the world was spinning around me. My ears felt like they were stuffed with cotton, and my skin was burning up.
    “Oh, a tough guy, huh?” The low-voiced, masked man pulled his gun. “Let’s see if you can stop bullets.”
    I dodged to the right as he fired. The first bullet caught me in the left shoulder, spinning me around. The circle of blackness flickered on and off and then vanished. Pain erupted throughout my brain. The second shot hit just above my right hip. I dropped to the ground on my back.
    “Silas!”
    “Run, Mel. Run!” I clutched my side as blood poured out.
    Low voice walked over and looked down at me. “Nope. Not bulletproof.” He pointed the gun at