«Have you ever considered brainstorming? It would make it less difficult to handle the situation, you know?» Luciana comments as soon as she's alone with Julia and me.
She's making fun of us, isn't she?
«What's the matter?» I inquire. «We didn't hide anything.»
«No, but you forgot to tell this and that to each one of them. Also, none of the other people in the room knew about the telepathic powers... Oh, the curled boy did grasp there was something, but he didn't know to what extent his sister could go.»
She takes a step forward, considering.
«Now I know why she could launch such a powerful attack at dawn. It was too late for a vampire and too early for a human mage. But she's neither of the two. You're something else, Julia. That's why everything I tried didn't work.»
«Kind of,» Julia replies with a shrug. «I didn't do anything in particular. Your powers don't work because the energy you use is incompatible with me.»
