The crisis came when of all times he was on his way to indulge in one of his hobbies, bird watching. He had Tuesdays off from work and as he frequentl... did on those days, he was driving to the hills and the birds. He had reached the beginning of a hills track and just got out of his car, when something seemed to explode in his head. ‘I can’t bloody well deal this any longer,’ he said out loud, then thought, ‘I’ve got to front her, I’ve got to know…to get at the truth.’ He got back into his car. She was afraid she'd overstepped a boundary, or misunderstood the signals she'd been reading these past three summers."I'm great," Maverick laughed a little, as he wiped a tear and left a trail of clean skin on his face. "Nobody's ever been as nice to me as you've been today." He was grateful but was never very good with words. "Thanks, Alana," he told her. The emotions he was feeling at that very moment were welling up fast, and he didn't want to cry, but, if anything could bring him to tears,. There were people travelling from all over. Some Alice kept her eye on as they walked by, almost hoping that they would satisfy the lust she was feeling. Soon, however, Kedi did arrive. As a concession to public decency, she wore clothes but as always as little as she could. In fact, she wore nothing on her slim black body but a pair of shorts and not even a pair of shoes. Most people wore more than that and so Kedi’s breasts attracted a great deal of attention. Alice herself, knowing of Kedi’s. And then it happened. I stole his powers.’ Solar Man’s eyes widened, and for the first time since this started, he really attempted to struggle. He tried to move his body, but her telepathic commands kept him locked in place. He tried to call upon his powers, to generate the flames from whence he derived his ‘code name.’ But he couldn’t. Somehow, she had turned off his fire powers with her psychic abilities as well. He struggled to block out what she was doing, to try and recall his senses and.