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.%20(v1.1).htmlBelow, sources mat kept Tulsa's weather relatively stable, and sources thatwould leave her owing her soul a hundred times over to her allies.Levin-boltafter levin-bolt came winging at Di out of the darkness and other things aswell.Di was pretty certain they -weren't illusions; illusions took a certainamount of mental control, and it was pretty obvious that Fay had lost anysemblance of that.Di treated the things as though they were summonings insteadof illusions, and they certainly went up with little screams of anguish when shehit them with her own levin-bolts.She stumbled through the tangled brush and over tree roots, trying to keep herhead down, trying to stay alive Deke still hadn't figured out what he wassupposed to do, and she wasn't sure he would in time to save her.If she doesn't kill me, her allies are going to make chili out of her for what sheawes them.They may do it anyway.But right now She made a dive for thecover of some bushes as an ugly little thing with a long poisonous stinger made adive for her.She managed to pick it off as it sheered away, but that gave awayher hiding place, and a levin-bolt splashed off her shielding. right now I'm abigger, shinier target than she is.Shit.I got the innocents out of the line of fire;very noble, but I'll bet that means that Guardian Magic isn't going to kick in.Wonderful.Just wonderful.Thanks a bunch, fellas.A rumble of thunder overhead alerted her to yet another danger.Fay'suncontrolled magics were boiling up the atmosphere, and the granddaddy of allthunderstorms was building up at preternatural speed.There was another storm brewing beneath the ground.The protections werethinning.The dreams of the One Below were taking on a disturbed quality.file:///F|/eMule/Incoming/Lackey,%20Mercedes%20-%.%20Tregarde%2003%20-%20Jinx%20High.%20(v1.1).html (426 of 434)3/16/2004 9:27:03 PMfile:///F|/eMule/Incoming/Lackey,%20Mercedes%20-%20Diana%20Tregarde%2003%20-%20Jinx%20High.%20(v1.1).htmlMark and Larry She made a quick check; felt with relief that they were allright; still draining the site, like an attentive swimming-pool crew, oblivious towhat was going on in Tulsa because of the shields around the place.I have thepower to take her down.But I haven't given her fair warning.And dammit, Ican't do it while she's taking potshots at me!Within a few moments, the thunder and lightning were so continuous that theentire landscape was strobing around her, and she couldn't even hear thescreeching of Fay's creatures.The One Below was dreaming of storms, too.She was right at the edge of the area covered by the headlights.Not a good placeto be.She scrambled up out of her bushes, tried to backpedal, and tripped oversomething hidden in the darkness.Then a strange and stomach-lurching feelingdistracted her for a moment, and, signaled by something deep inside her, shelooked up.Lightning played across the entire sky, illuminating the clouds whirling around ahole in the thunderheads.A funnel-cloud.And there was a definite stirring beneath the earth now; something beginning towake and take an interest in the proceedings.The last of its dreams shreddedawayIt wasn't pleased at having its dreams interrupted.file:///F|/eMule/Incoming/Lackey,%20Mercedes%20-%.%20Tregarde%2003%20-%20Jinx%20High.%20(v1.1).html (427 of 434)3/16/2004 9:27:03 PMfile:///F|/eMule/Incoming/Lackey,%20Mercedes%20-%20Diana%20Tregarde%2003%20-%20Jinx%20High.%20(v1.1).htmlAnd was going to make every living thing within reach pay for being awakened.Its reach was very long&Long enough to call down a hundred tornadoes on Tulsa, and send them rippingthrough every neighborhood in the city until there was enough peace for the OneBelow to drift back into dreams again.Di spent a split second reckoning up the worth of her Oath, and her options.I haven't got any.I'm going to have to bet it all.And hope she hasn't learned the "reflect your enemy's power back at him" trick.Everything she's done so far is three hundred years old, and that trick dates from1854.Please, oh godsOr there isn't going to be a Tulsa in the morning.She made her "mirror"; grounded and centered herself, bracing it as well as shepossibly couldAnd dashed out into the cone of light from the headlights; then stood up in plainview, as if caught by surprise.Di could feel the surge of triumph and saw the blast of power coming straightat her.The parabolic "mirror" held and funneled the sorceress's power right back intoher teeth.file:///F|/eMule/Incoming/Lackey,%20Mercedes%20-%.%20Tregarde%2003%20-%20Jinx%20High.%20(v1.1).html (428 of 434)3/16/2004 9:27:03 PMfile:///F|/eMule/Incoming/Lackey,%20Mercedes%20-%20Diana%20Tregarde%2003%20-%20Jinx%20High.%20(v1.1).htmlDi's arcane "eyes" as well as her physical ones were blinded as a half-dozenlightning bolts lashed down, attracted by the pull of the power.Her "ears" weredeafened by the scream of rage and pain, even as her physical ears were buffetedby thunder that literally pounded her to her knees.And overhead, the storm died; while underfoot, the One Below growled insatisfaction and drifted back into sleep&After a while, sight came back, and hearing, and Di picked herself back up offthe ground.Oh, gods.Everything hurts.Absolutely everything.Maybe I'd have been betteroff if she'd fried me.She staggered wearily back to her car; 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