The pain was incredible. I heard the ripping of clothes. I roared my pain. This could not be happening! I was no longer human. There was a moment of c...ncentration, and I breathed fire at my attacker. He screamed, and died. I lost consciousness.When I came back to myself, I was lying on my bed, on my stomach. I hurt like hell. There were several people in my field of vision."What happened," I asked, gasping."Paul. Don't talk. You were attacked by an assassin. We pulled a Drebasty knife from your. Given what you answered on your questionnaire, and what a background check showed, we were thinking of offering you a couple of positions in one of our production companies." Production companies?" Television. Now I see here you have a twin sister. Do you think she would be interested in this sort of opportunity?"I shook my head. "No, she has her heart set on flying. She's a cadet at the Air Force Academy."She looked disappointed. "We had a couple of producers who thought a show featuring two. If that was true, that she was seeing things differently, she wondered what else she from her past that she may view differently.Kat had been introduced to the team as Helios's new deputy, and she had received more than one sideways glance and measuring look. They welcomed her with a Kafe toast and made her feel right at home. After breakfast, the team split up in to smaller groups and went about their assignments. When not actively working on some emergency or other, they also performed. It created easily (actually they either "create easily" or don't create at all). I created a few more and used them to push things around on Julia's vanity, to make sure. In the kidnappers' basement and the hospital, I'd often failed to create NP-fingertips at a distance from me, but I was sure that was because of my unfamiliarity with the locations. I was intimately familiar with Julia's bedroom, the study, and their spatial relationship, so I'd been pretty sure I could create fingertips in.