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I felt something gentle seep into my mind, a quiet voice asking me to stop calling - telling me I was hurting someone I loved. I blinked, it felt like a sparkling brook ..."Willow? How did I hear her?" I immediately stopped sending the SOS and stared at the Wizard. I wondered if I could or even if I should delay him? He could hurt my friends and what would he do if he ever saw Willow?
I looked at him in growing anger, feeling my emotions taking control of mind. I heard Odie give a little girlie shriek, and exclaim to Enry - "See, I told ya, I told ya her eyes got all swirly."
The wizard looked at me and laughed, obviously overjoyed with the discovery that my eyes 'got all swirly'. He glanced over at the two mongrels who did his dirty work for him, capturing innocent beings for his torture and tossed them a bag of coins. "You did well, bring me these others," he threw down a wanted poster with a picture of all my friends on it, "and I'll make you wealthy beyond your mortal dreams."
The picture and the words drove me over the edge and I sprang at the Wizard, my knife miraculously appearing in my hand. I got one stride closer to him and a beam of light shot out of his staff, freezing me in an energy cage of light spinning me up up into the air.
I settled, frozen in the air facing the road I had just traveled down moments before and saw a rising cloud of dust. I sharpened my eyes against the glare and saw it was my friends riding in Jurak's sled and it had round things propelling it! I saw them suddenly shoot forward faster as if they could see me in my frozen cage.
Just then the wizard tapped his staff on the ground three times and chanted "ale mantra catore" and we were suddenly somewhere else. [/color]
