"Wow," Aymara said to Adriana as they sat in the indoor back porch. "I mean..she is right though."

"I know," Adriana replied. They were taking about what Sidi had told Adriana about the new limits to her gift. "I don't mean to be ungrateful it's just..."

"You're hiding something," Aymara said. "Something you're using your gift for."

"I am..." Adriana said after a pause. "But I can't talk about it. It's important though...I'm helping people. I want to be at my best. I've been trying to see if I can expand my gift..see if i can reach further or be more aware of thoughts without having to actively tune into them. I can't afford surprises...I just can't. There has to be a way.."

"Well.." Aymara started to say cautiously.

"What?" Adriana perked up. "What is it?"

"Nothing," Aymara said. "Sorry-"

"No! Tell me, please," Adriana begged. "I'm desperate here."

"Okay," Aymara finally spoke. "You can't tell mother that I told you this.."

"I swear I won't."

"Okay," she said after deep breath. "There is someone else who does work similar to what we do."

"She's a psychic?" Adriana asked.

"Well..she calls herself a healer."

"Sidi doesn't like her? Because she's competition..right."

"No, because she's not as...responsible as we are. She's more of an anything goes type of person."

"So, you think she'll help me?"

"I think she will," Aymara said. "But like I said..she's not responsible."

"That's fine," Adriana said knowing that she didn't care, she just wanted her gift to improve. "Where can I find her?"

"She's about eight blocks away," Aymara said. "It's best if you go early in the morning. She has a lot of business."

"Okay, give me her address."

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"I've never seen you wearing a watch before so I hope that you like it," Bruce said to Adriana as they had lunch at Wayne Tower. "But if not I can get you something else."

"It's so beautiful, I love it," Adriana said to Bruce as she admired the Piaget Limelight watch. The rose gold case was surrounded with stunning graduated diamonds. The screws were also diamond set. It was incredibly elegant and impressive. "How was Geneva?"

"It was fine," Bruce said. "I kept very busy, and came back early."

"I heard about what happened to the senator," Adriana told him.

"Yes," Bruce said. "You're in my thoughts. There was no mention of me in the news reports, just Shade. No one else knows I was there."

"Yup," Adriana said. "So...Shade.."

"Shade," Bruce sighed and began to look a bit distant has he thought about her. "Shade, indeed."

"She saved the Senator..with your help."

"We fought," Bruce said. " I know you're already seeing it in my thoughts and memories but it was so strange. She was an incredible fighter. When I came into the room it looked like she had taken out the Senators guards and was about to kill him."

"She was trying to help him," Adriana said observantly.

"Yes," Bruce said.

"So what's so strange about that?" Adriana wondered out loud.

"Well, when the fight started I struck her pretty hard. Since I thought she was about to kill the senator I fought her to the best of my ability." Bruce said still maintaining the far away look in his eyes. "What's so strange is... Maybe I'm just imagining it, but I felt like she was holding back when she was fighting me. As if she didn't want to hurt me."

"Maybe that's because she knows you were one of the good guys."

"Perhaps, but the with way that I came at her..it's suspicious. She had to have known that I was seconds away from possibly killing her. But I could tell she was restrained with her fighting. Which makes me think that her fighting skills are superior to mine. At some point it seems like she was tired of fighting me and just tackled me very easily."

"And that's strange?," Adriana said.

"I need to find out who she is and where she came from. Who she is working for."

"Maybe she's just like you," Adriana said. "Not working for anyone just an independent vigilante."

"No," Bruce said. "She's too good. She's working for someone."

"You have so much mistrust," Adriana laughed a bit.

"Why shouldn't I?" Bruce said seriously. "She performed a surgery removing a bomb out of man's chest in a speeding ambulance. Fighting skills aside."

"Yeah...that's crazy," Adriana said, still peering into Bruce's thoughts.

"She was too calm," Bruce said. "She didn't miss a beat. It was like she had been through or witnessed even crazier situations and this explosive device in the senator was nothing."

He couldn't tell, but she could. Subconsciously he was fascinated by Shade and beyond impressed. On some level, and he didn't want to admit it to himself, he was attracted to her. He wanted to see her again.