"Remember: You are only with your brother because I allow you to."
"And what, pray tell, is that supposed to mean, Mandarin?"
"Only what I say it means. I have noticed that you've forgotten your manners." Mandarin trailed a single claw up her throat to rest just below her chin. "You would do well to recover them or you may find the consequences unsatisfying."
"Yeah right." Nikki pushed his claw away from her. "You're only a dream. You can't do anything to me."
"But I will find you and then I will have the means to be able to do things to you beyond your worst dreams come true." The emerald-eyed teen glared at the orange simian that levitated before her. "Of course things would all change if your brother and his..pathetic team knew about your dreaming of me. "
Her rosy pink lips narrowed into a thin line. "You. Wouldn't. Dare."
"Would I?" He raised a single eyebrow.