‘Please try to lay still, Elaine.’ He said still distractedly staring at the screen. ‘Otherwise you’ll mess up the base readings.’ ‘Wha...t?’ She said. ‘What are you talking about, honey.’ ‘Just lay still.’ He ordered. Elaine was startled by the sudden dominance he exuded, that wasn’t like him at all. Yet she stopped struggling. Her heart was beating more and more nervously now. ‘All done. Don’t be scared.’ He said a moment later. ‘Well if you tie me down and hook me up to medical. Her parents believed the world had become a vile and depraved place, that keeping her from learning too much about it would keep her pure. She was home schooled, provided with only a strictly curated selection of books and movies and very rarely interacted with anyone her own age besides her twin brother.As she finished her stretches she looked out her windows with a bubbling excitement she had never experienced before. No longer would she feel like a princess trapped atop a tower, today would. A tiny bit to either side would have missed his phone and gone through both of us. I looked at what the police sent my dad. That bullet would have blasted most of my chest out through my back. I’m pretty sure David would have lived, but it would have fucked him up in the head.”The doctor sat there thinking it through, and when Marlene paused, he said, “You heard what you said, right? Little fat girl being chased and shot at by kidnappers. Some boy grabs you and is a human shield for a girl he. I do have a number of abilities I have been leveling up, like various shield spells and Teleport. My dad wanted me to be able to escape if I needed to.”“You should talk to my sisters. Perhaps they’d be interested in forming a team with you.”“I’ll think about it. They’ve been pretty busy the last few days, so I’m not sure they’ll have time for it, though.”“I think that’ll die down soon. They’ve been working with Abi and Selalea the last few days getting everything ready. As soon as we get back.