Althea and Jenni brought Magaly with them to talk to Ms Johnson the next week. They had waited to talk to her about being a Daughter until they were with Ms Johnson, to save repeating.

'What's your gift?' Althea asked.

Magaly sucked in a deep breath, like she was about to jump into cold water or something. 'Time Travel,' Magaly said. 'I discovered it when I was eight. I accidentally sent myself back to the year 1195, or thereabouts. Luckily I met someone who could help me control my time travelling ability.'

'Eight?' Ms Johnson repeated. 'That's impressive. Some teens cannot even fully control their power.'

'When you do a time travel, can you do a space travel as well?' Althea asked.

Magaly nodded.

'How accurate are you?' Ms Johnson asked.

'Depends on how careful I am,' Magaly replied evasively. 'If I'm careful I can hit a spot exactly. If I'm not, I won't. But I still usually land within a kilometre or two of where I mean to be.'

'Do you know of any other Daughters?' Jenni asked. 'Have you seen anyone else with another moon amulet?'

Magaly rolled her eyes in a disgusted sort of way.

'I take that as a yes,' Jenni said. 'You don't like that person do you?'

'Who is she?' Althea asked.

'Another freshman,' Magaly said. 'She's a girl, obviously, by the name of Kristen Johnson.'

'What's wrong with her?' Althea asked.

'She's one of the popular girls. She is one of those superficial ditzy types that doesn't ever think about anything more than what to wear or what makeup would look best with it,' Magaly replied. 'That is what is wrong with her.'

'She's not that bad,' Althea said. 'I'm in the orchestra with her, and she's a really good oboe player. But I've never seen her wear the amulet.'

'It is really tangled up in all those other necklaces and whatnot that she wears,' Magaly replied. 'If you look, it is hiding there.'

At the Daughters' next meeting, Althea brought Kristen with her. Jenni could feel Magaly's animosity towards Kristen, though she did behave politely towards Kristen. Jenni could see it in Kristen's mind that she had immediately picked up on what Magaly thought of her, and was a little offended. Is she another mind reader? Jenni wondered.

As it turned out, Kristen, or Kris as she liked to be called, was a shape shifter. She had discovered her gift in fifth grade, when she discovered that by wishing something about her appearance, it would be so. She had wished for hair like an older girl, and it had become reality. Naturally, in middle school, this gift made her quite popular in middle school. Kris had quickly discovered that big changes made her unrecognizable, not popular, and so had stuck to small changes, like highlights in her hair or maintaining a tan in the winter.

'Can you do animals?' Althea asked, always the inquisitive one.

Kris nodded. 'I've only tried a few though. Just a dog, a crow, and a cat.'

Ms Johnson sighed to herself as the girls left that day. She couldn't have picked more different girls to work together. Kristen was in with the popular crowd, a decent student, but not great. Althea, though not popular, was certainly not unpopular. She was an excellent musician, and not much of an athlete. Jenni was a shy girl, who hardly ever spoke in class, and seemed content with a long string of Bs and Cs. Her shyness prevented her from entering any after school activities. Magaly, on the other hand, was a brilliant student, easily making straight As in the advanced classes. Ms Johnson wondered what she did after school.

But, what when they start fighting the Atrox? A voice inside her head asked. They won´t have so much time then, will they?

Ms Johnson sincerely hoped that the girls would not have to choose. Magaly did not seem likely to accept Kris into her circle of friends, and Kris was not likely to be friends with someone so antagonistic. A fight with the Atrox, and perhaps some hard choices, may be the only way to make them completely accept each other, Ms Johnson thought. But I hope there is an easier way.