“World war 4 will be fought on the dancefloor,” was blasting out of Phoebe’s Alexis Spot device. Phoebe was shaking her butt back n forth to the beat, “Really, you need to play it that loud. It woke me up,” said Shadow now finding herself dancing to the beat. “Damn you, turn that off,” Shadow said as she threw her hands up in the air. “Come on let’s go eat breakfast. I’m starved,” said Shadow as she pulled Phoebe out of bed,

Breakfast was plain jane this morning. All that was available was breakfast cereal. Peter was in charge of meals today. He is lazy thought Shadow. Suzie sat next to Shadow, “How’s training going,” she asked Shadow. “it’s gotten hard. I can’t seem to get this new power under control,” replied Shadow. “Here’s the Raisin Bran you wanted,” said Shadow as she gave Suzie the box, Suzie looked at her dumbfounded, “How’d you do that?” she asked Shadow. “Do what?” said Shadow. “Know what I wanted,” said a puzzled Suzie. Shadow got quiet. She didn’t know how she did that either.

Time for training said Captain Cattitude as he motioned for Shadow to follow him. “You did it again. You read Suzie’s mind without knowing you were doing that. Now I want you to read my mind. Do what you did this morning,” said Captain Cattitude. “I don’t know what I did,” said a frustrated Shadow “Focus on my mind using your heart and mind. Really deeply focus on my mind,” said Captain Cattitude. “Ok,” said Shadow. Shadow tried hard to do what Captain Cattitude told her to do. An hour went by and Shadow thought she was starting to read his mind. “You think I will never get this,” said Shadow. “That’s right!” replied Captain Cattitude. “You’ve done it. Now what am I thinking?’ he said. “You’re thinking how proud you are of me,” said Shadow. “Right again,” said Captain Cattitude. “I think you have had enough for today. I imagine you’re very tired. I suggest you go lay down,” said Captain Cattitude. With that Shadow left his room and returned to hers…