"You've had a big job to do this year rebuilding your team. You're really getting them to focus on the game." We headed for the locker room and for ho...e, a jubilant crew.Parents and fans met the team bus when we got back to school about ten-thirty. The JV was waiting for us, too. They'd placed second in their tourney at MHS."I loved that style," Whitney said as she embraced me. "We are definitely going to try it. And I'm going to talk to Master Cho about how to integrate water style with rock. I want to look the place over. All we want is some blankets or clothes to keep all of you from getting sun-cooked.”“I’ll stay here, but I don’t really care to,” she said as Eli slipped to the ground and was gone through the tall brush and willows along the riverbank.When he came to the clearing where the trading post was, he saw it was twice as big as the one in Omega.There were two horses tied in back and he slipped through the brush to look at the front.There were four horses tied at the. That was right. That bitch didn’t get to dump my mother in the ocean. She was part nixie. That was what made her unique.She had some aspect of water mixed in with her fire.She should be fine. She would be fine.I took a deep breath and dove beneath the waves. I kicked into the seawater and spotted her sinking into the black. I kicked hard for her, battling against the current. Her wings spread out wide, her feathers billowing. Blue hair rippled behind her. I kicked lower and lower for her,. "She looked up and saw him smiling then said, "Don't you dare say one word about how I suck!"James couldn't help laughing, and when he did, Kimber laughed, too. She held him close, and for the first time since she and Michael had been like this, she felt like she was in love again. She knew it was too early to use the 'L' word, but James had already come close, and they'd both admitted to 'love at first sight'. Even so, she ached to tell him, but chose instead to lay there in his arms and draw.