Chapter 8
"Do you know who they are?" Katie asked over the hyperspace com link.
"I heard that these smugglers killed and robbed thousands of residents on Coruscant." Jacen replied back. "The police have been trying to arrest or get rid of them. It looks like we'll be the ones to do it."
"Is that why you choosed Tatooine? Because there isn't as much traffic or people living there?"
"Yeah. And I have a way to contact my uncle if we have to land or have some damages."
"Oh. Hold on! I have to come out of hyperspace!"
"Get ready for some hot flying, Katie!"
"You too, Jacen!" Katie reentered normal space with Jacen and the other fighters on her tail. Almost immediately, green and red streaks of the smugglers laser cannons past her and disappeared into space. She locked her S-foils into attack position and turned her X-wing around to face the other fighters.
She immediately had to dive to avoid a collision with one of the enemy fighter's. The fighter got on her tail and let loose a barrage of laser. Katie dived again and then straight up, going so fast that she looked like a blur to the other fighter. She got on to his tail then tightened her thumb on her laser cannon button, shattering the fighter.
She went back to the rest of the fight and picked off four more fighters with some difficulty. Then she got another fighter tailing her that she couldn't shake.
"Hold on, Katie!" Jacen's voice cracked over the intercom. Katie dodge the laser fire with the help of the Force. Suddenly, the fighter exploded into tiny bits as Jacen came flying by.
"Thanks Jacen."
"No problem. I think that's all."
"How many did you get?"
"About four."
"I think I got five."
"Wait a minute. If you got five and I got four, then that means there still one-" Jacen's transmission suddenly ended.
"Jacen?" Katie looked out of the canopy in time to see an X-wing fall to the atmosphere of Tatooine.
"JACEN!"
Katie swung her X-wing around to meet the fighter that had just shot down Jacen. She immediately let loose a storm of laser fire, hitting the other fighter. Then she pointed her fighter toward the desert planet and descended, hoping to find any trace of Jacen.
*
Katie didn't have to search long when she spotted a lone X-wing sticking out of the sand. "Jacen! Answer me!" Katie cried out into her com link. But there was no response. She reached out through the Force and found his life presence, but very weak.
She immediately set down her X-wing right beside Jacen's and jumped over the side and tripped over her long dress and fell into the hot sand but her skin protected her from it.
She got up and concentrated on her clothes. The greenish-blue skirt turned to a creamy color and wrapped itself around her legs while the top part turned white and the black straps of her dress turned thin and moved to become part of the shirt. Her high heels turned black and hard as they turned into boots and all of her hair fell into her eyes. Her own lightsaber appeared on her belt right beside her right hand where she could easily reach it. Finally, a silver cape seemed to grow out of her shoulders, completely covering her body from the neck down, and a silver hood covered her head and eyes and Katie didn't feel the Tatooine desert heat through the thin material.
Katie ran toward Jacen's X-wing as fast as she can. As soon as she reached it, she pried the canopy open and found an unconscious Jacen slumped against the front of the cockpit with a big gash on his forehead.
"Jacen!" Katie cried again but got no response. She pulled Jacen out onto the ground and took off her silver cloak and covered him with it because Jacen probably never been on such a hot planet.
*But where will I take him*, she wondered. Then she remembered a place where she and her father had lived when she was little.
Suddenly the wind picked up and the sand started to swirl. *Oh great,* she thought, *just what I need. A sand storm.*
Katie lifted Jacen to her shoulders and in a flash of red, she turned into a large desert tiger. She carried Jacen miles and miles toward her old home in the sand storm.
Chapter 9
About three hours later, Katie arrived, with Jacen on her back, to a Tatooine house where she spent five years of her life. It looked like the same home that was in the back ground of holopictures she remembered seeing on her father's ship.
She quickly changed back into human and opened the door before the sand and the wind could do them any more harm. As soon as they were inside, Katie got a more secure hold on Jacen and took him to one of the bedrooms. There, she took the silver cloak from him and reattached it around her neck, laid him on the bed, and covered him with a silver blanket that was made out of the same material as her cloak.
Katie noticed that the cut on Jacen's forehead started to bleed again and ran to get something to stop it.
When she came back, Jacen was a woke and trying to get up. Katie immediately pushed him back down.
"Ow! That hurts!" Jacen shouted.
"That's why you should stay down!" Katie shouted back. Katie took out the piece of cloth and carefully put it over the gash and wrapped Jacen's head so it would stay in place.
"What happened?" Jacen asked painfully.
"You got shot down by the last fighter," Katie explained, putting her fingers over the gash and used the Force to take away some of Jacen's pain. He relaxed a little while Katie went on explaining.
"I found you unconscious in your X-wing half buried in the sand and I brought you to the house I used to live in." They both heard the wind out side die down as the sand storm was near it's end. She got up and put the cloak around her shoulders and started for the door.
"Hey! Where are you going?" Jacen asked, putting his left hand on the table beside him to get up but immediately cried out in pain and fell back.
Katie rushed over to him. "You need to stay down," Katie told him. "And it seems that you also sprained your wrist when you crashed. I need to go into Mos Eisley and pick up some supplies." She took out one comlink and laid it on the table beside him. "If you need me, just call over the comlink. And try to get some rest while I'm gone. And don't try to use your left wrist." Katie said, pulling the hood of her cloak over her head and flashed Jacen a smile and left the room.
Katie picked up a bag and left the house, seeing that the storm had completely died down. *Perfect,* she thought, *the right kind of weather for flying.*
Katie spread her arms and the cloak attached itself to her and turned into golden feathers of a desert eagle. She grew smaller and her bones grew hollow and light weight. A few minutes later, she was in the air, riding the thermals from the desert. She spotted Mos Eisley and headed for it.
*
Two hours later, Katie landed near the out skirts of Mos Eisley with a few aliens looking at her, but turned away when they saw it was only a desert bird.
Katie decided that a quick change would be best. There was a flash of red and a mysterious form in a silver cloak walked into Mos Eisley.
She walked from stand to stand, occasionally buying some food or something for Jacen's injuries. She smiled and started for the edge of the town.
She was almost out of town when a few space pirates stepped in front of her, cutting off her exit.
"Where are you going?" the one in the middle asked.
"Out," Katie replied, still going at the same pace.
"I don't think so," he said, pulling a blaster and pointed it at her chest. "Now. Let's see what's in the bag."
"Why do you want to see what I have?" Katie asked, pulling the hood of her cloak off, revealing her long gold-streak brown hair and her glittery face.
"Now, now. We don't want to hurt that pretty face of yours. Now, hand over the bag."
Katie immediately broke to the left of the group, dropped the bag and her cloak, and brought up her lightsaber just as one of the pirates shot his blaster and deflected the bolt with the indigo blade.
"She's a Jedi!" one of the pirates exclaimed.
Katie walked over to her cloak, wrapped it around her shoulders and brought up the hood, and in a flash of red, a desert tiger was running away from Mos Eisley with a bag in it's mouth.
Chapter 10
Half way back, Katie stopped out of sheer exhaustion and morphed back to her human form and welcome the coolness of her cloak. Suddenly, her comlink beeped, startling her. Pulling it out of her pocket, she turned it on.
"Hello?"
"Katie? Is that you? Where are you?" Jacen's voice came back.
"I'm about an hour away from the house. Why?"
"Why?! You had me worried sick! I've been trying to reach you for the past hour! What happened?!"
"Oh nothing. Just got jumped by a bunch of pirates."
"JUMPED!" Jacen practically screamed. "I want you back here right now!"
"All right. I'll be there in fifteen minutes." Katie clicked off her comlink, put it back into her pocket, and flashed-morphed into the desert bird and made her way back to Jacen with her bag in her talons.
*
Fifteen minutes later, Katie walked into the house, taking off her cloak and hung it on the peg just inside of the door. She set down her bag in the kitchen, grabbed something from the bag, and walked into the room that Jacen was in.
"I was wondering where you were," Jacen said, flashing Katie a smile.
"Very funny," Katie replied, walking over to him and sat down into the chair beside the bed. "Now let me see your sprained wrist."
Jacen showed her the wrist and she took out a wrap and wrapped it. But something else was wrong. She put the back of her hand against Jacen's forehead but immediately pulled it back because she almost got burned.
"What's wrong?" Jacen asked.
"Your burning with a fever," Katie said. She quickly left the room and came back with a bowl filled with cold water and wash cloth in hand. She dipped the wash cloth into the bowl and put it on Jacen's forehead, being careful to avoid the gash.
"Thank you."
"Would you like some fruit or soup?" Katie asked as she moved toward the door.
"Sure."
Katie left the room and fifteen minutes later, she appeared with a bowl of soup, a bowl of different kinds of fruit and a cup of tea on a tray. Katie set the tray on the table next to him and said, "I'll be in the main room if you need me," and flashed him a smile.
"Oh, Katie?"
"Yes?"
"Thanks."
She left him so he could eat and get some rest and grabbed a piece of fruit on the way to the main room. Katie sat there for hours, chewing thoughtfully on the fruit and eventually fell asleep stretched out on a couch.
Chapter 11
A couple days later, Jacen awoke from a Jedi healing trance to find that his wrist had fully healed and the gash on his forehead completely gone. He crept out of his bed and out of the room. He walked toward the middle of the house and suddenly saw Katie asleep. The weird thing was that she was four feet above the couch in the main room.
She wore a two-piece, greenish-blue nightgown with a lacy cloth over it. Her gold-brown hair hung in space as she stayed in the same spot.
Suddenly, Katie felt Jacen's presence.
She let out a slight gasp and fell onto the couch with a soft thud, and in a flash of red, was wearing her Jedi outfit, her glittery skin and stone disappearing along with some of the gold in her hair. She quickly got up with a slight embarrassed look on her face.
"When did you get up?" she asked, looking at Jacen.
"A few minutes ago. Where did you get your clothes?" he asked Katie.
"These are the same clothes I was wearing when you took me out."
"They are?"
"Yes." And to show him, her clothes suddenly changed into the dress she wore a couple days earlier, then turned back into the Jedi outfit.
"Oh. And where's your stone?"
"This is one of my morphs. The stone, glitter in my skin, and most of the gold in my hair disappear with my lightsaber if I wish."
"Where is your lightsaber?"
'"Right here," she said, patting her right hip. "It's morphed into my outfit. And your is right here." She hand Jacen his lightsaber and he hooked it on his belt.
"Thanks."
"Oh. I also got something for you," she said, walking over to a table. She pulled a silver cloak off the table that looked like hers and handed it to Jacen.
He looked at it and finally put it around his shoulders and ended just above the floor. "Thanks."
"Come on. Let's go test it!" she said pulling Jacen to a door that leads outside. She grabbed her cloak from the peg, snapped it around her neck and went outside with Jacen at her heals.
Jacen expected searing heat but instead felt comfortable in the bright sunlight but still had to shield his eyes before he was able to pull up the hood.
"You use to live here?" Jacen asked Katie from under his hood.
"For the first nine years of my life," she replied. "Let me see your right hand."
"Why?" Jacen asked, holding out his right hand.
Katie took it and pressed it against a pad right beside the door. He felt a quick surge in the Force that made him dizzy. When the dizziness cleared, he saw a slightly weird imprint on the pad.
"What was that for?"
"Now you can open the lock. All you have to do is put your hand on the pad, and then use the Force to unlock it."
"Wow."
"Now. Which way is that place you were talking about?" Katie asked, scanning the horizon.
"That way," Jacen pointed, "Out in the Western Dune Sea."
"Well. Let's get going."
"Right now?!"
"Well. Hold on." Katie disappeared and reappeared, carrying two silver bags.
"What are these?" Jacen asked when she handed both of them to him.
"These are just supplies we might need if we get separated. But I need you to hold on to mine."
"Why?"
Because I'm running and you're riding.
"Oh." Then Jacen looked at Katie and let out a yelp when he saw a very large orange tiger standing right beside him. "I wish you would have warned me."
Well, climb on.
"On you?"
Yeah. I'm the fastest thing here.
"All right." He careful got on the tiger's back, making sure that he has a good hold in the bags.
Ready, Jacen?
"If you are, Kat."
Kat?
"Yeah. That's basically the only morph I've seen you-"
Suddenly, Katie took off running with Jacen holding on for dear life. Jacen could have sworn that the tiger was smiling.
*
They went deeper into the desert, and about an hour later, Katie suddenly stopped, sending Jacen into the sand.
"Would you PLEASE warn me if you're going to do that?!" he said, getting up.
Would you please be quiet? she hissed back. There was a flash of red and Katie was in the human morph with out the stone, the glitter, and less gold in her hair, wearing her silver cloak.
"What's wrong?"
"Someone's coming. I could hear the ship with the tiger's ears, but not now," she said, looking around. "I also feel dark ripples in the For-"
Suddenly, the world around them explode in a flash of light.
"Do you know who they are?" Katie asked over the hyperspace com link.
"I heard that these smugglers killed and robbed thousands of residents on Coruscant." Jacen replied back. "The police have been trying to arrest or get rid of them. It looks like we'll be the ones to do it."
"Is that why you choosed Tatooine? Because there isn't as much traffic or people living there?"
"Yeah. And I have a way to contact my uncle if we have to land or have some damages."
"Oh. Hold on! I have to come out of hyperspace!"
"Get ready for some hot flying, Katie!"
"You too, Jacen!" Katie reentered normal space with Jacen and the other fighters on her tail. Almost immediately, green and red streaks of the smugglers laser cannons past her and disappeared into space. She locked her S-foils into attack position and turned her X-wing around to face the other fighters.
She immediately had to dive to avoid a collision with one of the enemy fighter's. The fighter got on her tail and let loose a barrage of laser. Katie dived again and then straight up, going so fast that she looked like a blur to the other fighter. She got on to his tail then tightened her thumb on her laser cannon button, shattering the fighter.
She went back to the rest of the fight and picked off four more fighters with some difficulty. Then she got another fighter tailing her that she couldn't shake.
"Hold on, Katie!" Jacen's voice cracked over the intercom. Katie dodge the laser fire with the help of the Force. Suddenly, the fighter exploded into tiny bits as Jacen came flying by.
"Thanks Jacen."
"No problem. I think that's all."
"How many did you get?"
"About four."
"I think I got five."
"Wait a minute. If you got five and I got four, then that means there still one-" Jacen's transmission suddenly ended.
"Jacen?" Katie looked out of the canopy in time to see an X-wing fall to the atmosphere of Tatooine.
"JACEN!"
Katie swung her X-wing around to meet the fighter that had just shot down Jacen. She immediately let loose a storm of laser fire, hitting the other fighter. Then she pointed her fighter toward the desert planet and descended, hoping to find any trace of Jacen.
*
Katie didn't have to search long when she spotted a lone X-wing sticking out of the sand. "Jacen! Answer me!" Katie cried out into her com link. But there was no response. She reached out through the Force and found his life presence, but very weak.
She immediately set down her X-wing right beside Jacen's and jumped over the side and tripped over her long dress and fell into the hot sand but her skin protected her from it.
She got up and concentrated on her clothes. The greenish-blue skirt turned to a creamy color and wrapped itself around her legs while the top part turned white and the black straps of her dress turned thin and moved to become part of the shirt. Her high heels turned black and hard as they turned into boots and all of her hair fell into her eyes. Her own lightsaber appeared on her belt right beside her right hand where she could easily reach it. Finally, a silver cape seemed to grow out of her shoulders, completely covering her body from the neck down, and a silver hood covered her head and eyes and Katie didn't feel the Tatooine desert heat through the thin material.
Katie ran toward Jacen's X-wing as fast as she can. As soon as she reached it, she pried the canopy open and found an unconscious Jacen slumped against the front of the cockpit with a big gash on his forehead.
"Jacen!" Katie cried again but got no response. She pulled Jacen out onto the ground and took off her silver cloak and covered him with it because Jacen probably never been on such a hot planet.
*But where will I take him*, she wondered. Then she remembered a place where she and her father had lived when she was little.
Suddenly the wind picked up and the sand started to swirl. *Oh great,* she thought, *just what I need. A sand storm.*
Katie lifted Jacen to her shoulders and in a flash of red, she turned into a large desert tiger. She carried Jacen miles and miles toward her old home in the sand storm.
Chapter 9
About three hours later, Katie arrived, with Jacen on her back, to a Tatooine house where she spent five years of her life. It looked like the same home that was in the back ground of holopictures she remembered seeing on her father's ship.
She quickly changed back into human and opened the door before the sand and the wind could do them any more harm. As soon as they were inside, Katie got a more secure hold on Jacen and took him to one of the bedrooms. There, she took the silver cloak from him and reattached it around her neck, laid him on the bed, and covered him with a silver blanket that was made out of the same material as her cloak.
Katie noticed that the cut on Jacen's forehead started to bleed again and ran to get something to stop it.
When she came back, Jacen was a woke and trying to get up. Katie immediately pushed him back down.
"Ow! That hurts!" Jacen shouted.
"That's why you should stay down!" Katie shouted back. Katie took out the piece of cloth and carefully put it over the gash and wrapped Jacen's head so it would stay in place.
"What happened?" Jacen asked painfully.
"You got shot down by the last fighter," Katie explained, putting her fingers over the gash and used the Force to take away some of Jacen's pain. He relaxed a little while Katie went on explaining.
"I found you unconscious in your X-wing half buried in the sand and I brought you to the house I used to live in." They both heard the wind out side die down as the sand storm was near it's end. She got up and put the cloak around her shoulders and started for the door.
"Hey! Where are you going?" Jacen asked, putting his left hand on the table beside him to get up but immediately cried out in pain and fell back.
Katie rushed over to him. "You need to stay down," Katie told him. "And it seems that you also sprained your wrist when you crashed. I need to go into Mos Eisley and pick up some supplies." She took out one comlink and laid it on the table beside him. "If you need me, just call over the comlink. And try to get some rest while I'm gone. And don't try to use your left wrist." Katie said, pulling the hood of her cloak over her head and flashed Jacen a smile and left the room.
Katie picked up a bag and left the house, seeing that the storm had completely died down. *Perfect,* she thought, *the right kind of weather for flying.*
Katie spread her arms and the cloak attached itself to her and turned into golden feathers of a desert eagle. She grew smaller and her bones grew hollow and light weight. A few minutes later, she was in the air, riding the thermals from the desert. She spotted Mos Eisley and headed for it.
*
Two hours later, Katie landed near the out skirts of Mos Eisley with a few aliens looking at her, but turned away when they saw it was only a desert bird.
Katie decided that a quick change would be best. There was a flash of red and a mysterious form in a silver cloak walked into Mos Eisley.
She walked from stand to stand, occasionally buying some food or something for Jacen's injuries. She smiled and started for the edge of the town.
She was almost out of town when a few space pirates stepped in front of her, cutting off her exit.
"Where are you going?" the one in the middle asked.
"Out," Katie replied, still going at the same pace.
"I don't think so," he said, pulling a blaster and pointed it at her chest. "Now. Let's see what's in the bag."
"Why do you want to see what I have?" Katie asked, pulling the hood of her cloak off, revealing her long gold-streak brown hair and her glittery face.
"Now, now. We don't want to hurt that pretty face of yours. Now, hand over the bag."
Katie immediately broke to the left of the group, dropped the bag and her cloak, and brought up her lightsaber just as one of the pirates shot his blaster and deflected the bolt with the indigo blade.
"She's a Jedi!" one of the pirates exclaimed.
Katie walked over to her cloak, wrapped it around her shoulders and brought up the hood, and in a flash of red, a desert tiger was running away from Mos Eisley with a bag in it's mouth.
Chapter 10
Half way back, Katie stopped out of sheer exhaustion and morphed back to her human form and welcome the coolness of her cloak. Suddenly, her comlink beeped, startling her. Pulling it out of her pocket, she turned it on.
"Hello?"
"Katie? Is that you? Where are you?" Jacen's voice came back.
"I'm about an hour away from the house. Why?"
"Why?! You had me worried sick! I've been trying to reach you for the past hour! What happened?!"
"Oh nothing. Just got jumped by a bunch of pirates."
"JUMPED!" Jacen practically screamed. "I want you back here right now!"
"All right. I'll be there in fifteen minutes." Katie clicked off her comlink, put it back into her pocket, and flashed-morphed into the desert bird and made her way back to Jacen with her bag in her talons.
*
Fifteen minutes later, Katie walked into the house, taking off her cloak and hung it on the peg just inside of the door. She set down her bag in the kitchen, grabbed something from the bag, and walked into the room that Jacen was in.
"I was wondering where you were," Jacen said, flashing Katie a smile.
"Very funny," Katie replied, walking over to him and sat down into the chair beside the bed. "Now let me see your sprained wrist."
Jacen showed her the wrist and she took out a wrap and wrapped it. But something else was wrong. She put the back of her hand against Jacen's forehead but immediately pulled it back because she almost got burned.
"What's wrong?" Jacen asked.
"Your burning with a fever," Katie said. She quickly left the room and came back with a bowl filled with cold water and wash cloth in hand. She dipped the wash cloth into the bowl and put it on Jacen's forehead, being careful to avoid the gash.
"Thank you."
"Would you like some fruit or soup?" Katie asked as she moved toward the door.
"Sure."
Katie left the room and fifteen minutes later, she appeared with a bowl of soup, a bowl of different kinds of fruit and a cup of tea on a tray. Katie set the tray on the table next to him and said, "I'll be in the main room if you need me," and flashed him a smile.
"Oh, Katie?"
"Yes?"
"Thanks."
She left him so he could eat and get some rest and grabbed a piece of fruit on the way to the main room. Katie sat there for hours, chewing thoughtfully on the fruit and eventually fell asleep stretched out on a couch.
Chapter 11
A couple days later, Jacen awoke from a Jedi healing trance to find that his wrist had fully healed and the gash on his forehead completely gone. He crept out of his bed and out of the room. He walked toward the middle of the house and suddenly saw Katie asleep. The weird thing was that she was four feet above the couch in the main room.
She wore a two-piece, greenish-blue nightgown with a lacy cloth over it. Her gold-brown hair hung in space as she stayed in the same spot.
Suddenly, Katie felt Jacen's presence.
She let out a slight gasp and fell onto the couch with a soft thud, and in a flash of red, was wearing her Jedi outfit, her glittery skin and stone disappearing along with some of the gold in her hair. She quickly got up with a slight embarrassed look on her face.
"When did you get up?" she asked, looking at Jacen.
"A few minutes ago. Where did you get your clothes?" he asked Katie.
"These are the same clothes I was wearing when you took me out."
"They are?"
"Yes." And to show him, her clothes suddenly changed into the dress she wore a couple days earlier, then turned back into the Jedi outfit.
"Oh. And where's your stone?"
"This is one of my morphs. The stone, glitter in my skin, and most of the gold in my hair disappear with my lightsaber if I wish."
"Where is your lightsaber?"
'"Right here," she said, patting her right hip. "It's morphed into my outfit. And your is right here." She hand Jacen his lightsaber and he hooked it on his belt.
"Thanks."
"Oh. I also got something for you," she said, walking over to a table. She pulled a silver cloak off the table that looked like hers and handed it to Jacen.
He looked at it and finally put it around his shoulders and ended just above the floor. "Thanks."
"Come on. Let's go test it!" she said pulling Jacen to a door that leads outside. She grabbed her cloak from the peg, snapped it around her neck and went outside with Jacen at her heals.
Jacen expected searing heat but instead felt comfortable in the bright sunlight but still had to shield his eyes before he was able to pull up the hood.
"You use to live here?" Jacen asked Katie from under his hood.
"For the first nine years of my life," she replied. "Let me see your right hand."
"Why?" Jacen asked, holding out his right hand.
Katie took it and pressed it against a pad right beside the door. He felt a quick surge in the Force that made him dizzy. When the dizziness cleared, he saw a slightly weird imprint on the pad.
"What was that for?"
"Now you can open the lock. All you have to do is put your hand on the pad, and then use the Force to unlock it."
"Wow."
"Now. Which way is that place you were talking about?" Katie asked, scanning the horizon.
"That way," Jacen pointed, "Out in the Western Dune Sea."
"Well. Let's get going."
"Right now?!"
"Well. Hold on." Katie disappeared and reappeared, carrying two silver bags.
"What are these?" Jacen asked when she handed both of them to him.
"These are just supplies we might need if we get separated. But I need you to hold on to mine."
"Why?"
Because I'm running and you're riding.
"Oh." Then Jacen looked at Katie and let out a yelp when he saw a very large orange tiger standing right beside him. "I wish you would have warned me."
Well, climb on.
"On you?"
Yeah. I'm the fastest thing here.
"All right." He careful got on the tiger's back, making sure that he has a good hold in the bags.
Ready, Jacen?
"If you are, Kat."
Kat?
"Yeah. That's basically the only morph I've seen you-"
Suddenly, Katie took off running with Jacen holding on for dear life. Jacen could have sworn that the tiger was smiling.
*
They went deeper into the desert, and about an hour later, Katie suddenly stopped, sending Jacen into the sand.
"Would you PLEASE warn me if you're going to do that?!" he said, getting up.
Would you please be quiet? she hissed back. There was a flash of red and Katie was in the human morph with out the stone, the glitter, and less gold in her hair, wearing her silver cloak.
"What's wrong?"
"Someone's coming. I could hear the ship with the tiger's ears, but not now," she said, looking around. "I also feel dark ripples in the For-"
Suddenly, the world around them explode in a flash of light.