One month later. You would think that gossip would have moved past the arrest of the Rev by now, but it hadn't. This was extra annoying for me because it had spread like wildfire that I was at fault for stopping him from killing a monster. Apparently none of his followers cared that the "monster" was a teenage girl.

I found out Blondie and pirate were named Audrey and Duke respectively. I had also started talking to Audrey and Nathan after the arrest – they cornered me on the street one day in the week following. I had told them my trouble but not necessarily how much control I had, only that it wouldn't cause them any issues. Nathan told me that he was troubled as well, said he couldn't feel anything. I remember asking him how he could function, like if you can't feel the steering wheel, how do you know that you are actually turning it. He didn't have a good response to that. Surprisingly Audrey does not have a trouble. In fact she seems to be immune, except she isn't immune to mine so far.

They were also dealing with backlash from the Reverend's arrest. In the beginning I had felt a little bad for them but after talking to Vince and Dave, the two old guys from the woods, they assured me that this was the best possible outcome short of never having had the Reverend in the woods in the first place. For a month I tried to see the guys at least twice a week to talk about the history of the town. Although they had been unwilling to share at first, I finally managed to get them on my side. I admit, I had to throw my family name around – the same family name that I hadn't shared with anyone else – I technically owned a lot of the land in the town, including the land that the Haven Herald was on top of. I made them promise not to spill my family name to anyone, I wanted to just be a newcomer to Haven, not a resident heir. I didn't want anyone to seek me out to be a connection.

Duke Crocker, the resident pirate and all-around bad boy. He owned a restaurant and bar, The Grey Gull, close to the house that I was renting. Out of boredom mostly, I pursued a job at the Gull, just to keep busy. Three weeks ago I was hired as a waitress. One week ago I was promoted to live entertainment when his planned band quit without warning and when the people started to riot I used my trouble to play music in the background that I then sang to. Just yesterday I had finally managed to compromise with the man about payment for my services. I finally convinced him to keep me on as a waitress and pay me the minimum, but to let the guests tip me when I sang and that I would take nothing else. It was in his benefit when just last night I managed to leave with over $150 in tips, which would be a little more than a lone singer could hope for normally.

The day after Crocker found his father's armory in a box, I was working a morning shift at the Gull. There weren't many people but it was the lunch shift so I sang lightly while I bussed tables. Duke, Audrey and Nathan were at the bar. Suddenly I heard a scream, although when I looked around, no one seemed to have noticed it. When I heard another I bolted to the door and looked around for the cause. As I looked toward the little wharf that docked Crocker's boat, I just managed to catch sight of a child's head disappear into the water. I had just enough focus to drop my cell phone on the wharf before I jumped into the water.

Later I remembered being only vaguely aware that the music had stopped. I swam as hard as I could to the spot where I had seen the child disappear but diving down. There were three small sharks circling the child as she struggled to not drown. Suddenly one of the sharks turned on my so I punched it, this seemed to startle the others which gave me a chance to grab the girl and swim back to the surface. When I got back to the wharf there was a small crowd of patrons as well as Haven's Trio. Nathan and Audrey took the girl from me but as I attempted to get out of the water, I was pulled back under. A shark had latched itself onto my leg while the others came in for round two. I was about to punch them both but I ran out of air and in an act of last minute desperation I did something I didn't know that I could: I sent a sound wave through the water and dazed all three sharks although the one was still attached. When I got to the surface I was heaved out of the water by someone – I later found out it was Duke – before I promptly fainted. When I woke up 10 minutes later, an ambulance had been called for the girl and I, and a bullet had killed the shark that was still attached to my leg. I had been moved to a lawn sofa out in front of the restaurant while unconscious, and I knew that I wouldn't be able to walk on my own to check on the girl so I picked up a coaster and threw it at the front door. The Haven Trio promptly responded and sat with me.

"How is she?" I asked while we waited for the ambulances to arrive.

"She's fine. Sleeping." Nathan.

"What about you?" Audrey.

"Eh. Hand me a knife I'll be fine, once I cut this sucker off." Me. They all glared at me.

"Don't even think about it. You're going to the hospital." Audrey.

"How did you even hear her scream? I couldn't hear anything but your music in the background." All eyes on me.

"Right… So you know that I can project music, yeah? Well unlike you all, I'm used to hearing music all the time, so I have learned to hear past it. Especially with how riled up people have been lately, I was specifically listening for signs of distress."

"Oh." Nathan.

"So… What was that ripple I saw in the water? It seemed to originate from you..?" Crocker.

"That was real? You saw it? I'm not even sure what I did. I ran out of air and I panicked and then it felt like I was projected music at them but different, like 20 times louder than normal. I will have to call my Grandmother later to ask her if she knows anything." And then the ambulance drove up.

"Well time to ship you off to the hospital." Crocker.

"I get the feeling I am going to spend entirely too much time there…"

They did eventually find the family of the little girl I fished out of the river. Mother and daughter came to see me in my hospital room to thank me personally just as Duke came to pick me up. They had just been passing through when they got separated. The mother suggested she thank me some other way but I told her that I was happy to help. When the little girl found out that a shark had bitten me she became distressed. I told her that scars were like tattoos that I didn't have to pay for. I caught Duke smiling at my comment but he quickly looked away so I don't think he realized that I noticed him.