p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman;"I was meditating in my shrine, lost deep in the flames, in flickers of the past and future, so I didn't notice anyone in the room until Harry tapped me on the shoulder./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman;"I jumped, the fire leaped, and I grabbed Harry and pushed him down as the fire leapt out at us./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman;""Never sneak up on me." I said seriously./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman;""Good…to know." Harry said uncertainly. "About your powers…do you really see horrible things? Do you ever…have dreams?"/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman;""All the time," I smiled at him. "Harry, there's no need to be afraid. I know and understand what you're going through. You can always talk to me."/span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman;"Harry blinked. He had planned on coming here to comfort her, but it had turned out the other way around. /span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman;"He couldn't figure it out. She was so beautiful and smart and powerful…but also guarded. Harry wanted to learn more about her, but it seemed a futile effort./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman;"He smirked to himself. So she was going to be like that? Well he wasn't going to give up./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman;"He had a few weeks left of summer, and he would use that time to get closer to Kuri./span/p
p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Charter;"span style="font-family: Charter-Roman;"Somehow, little by little. Yes, little by little./span/p