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about fifteen to twenty minutes before I am too weak.”
    “How?  Teach me?” 
    I grimaced. 
    Then she added, “You have an unfair advantage.  Besides, I am still here and don’t think for one minute that I couldn't have gotten out of here last night.”
    “I know!”  I smiled loving this catty side of her.  When she pointed out my dimples to herself, I closed my mouth tight.  I couldn't hide the thrill it shot through me.
    “Teach me,” she almost begged.
    Get dressed and I will teach you in the Sun room as you call it.  You know which one that is?
    She stopped short in the door frame seeing me on the balcony.  She seemed to hold her breath and even held my gaze for longer than three seconds.  That was the record.  Her mind noted the color of my clothes.  Interesting.  I faced the sky and called to the air to breath in something other than her.  I was consumed by all things her.  “Close your eyes.”
    “No.”
    She defied me.  “Close them.”  I closed the distance between us not taking no very well in my vocabulary.  No one told me no.  She relentlessly obeyed for one reason or another.                “Now, find a quiet place in your life where you chose religiously to just think.”
    “Place?”
    I didn’t answer.
    “Got it!” She thought of her home in the garden.  That really was one of her favorite places.  Once she was focused, I started to scream on the inside. 
    “Anastacia.”  Her shoulder rocked back against mine.  She opened one lid first and then the other.  Dizzily, she held on to my arm.  “You did it.  You blocked out my screaming at the top of my subconscious mind.”
    “I did.  How?”  Drained, she let sadness wash over her.  Why? 
    “You put yourself in a quiet place where no one could find you."  You let your mind relax.
    “What about the ring?  Doesn ’t it do the same?”  She figured out the ring has other qualities.  Great!  My frown was noted by her down edged eyebrows.  “Yes to both your thoughts and you spoke aloud, but then I can’t find you when you are in danger and that I can’t handle.”
    “Then why did Dr. Green want me to have it. ”
    “Dr. Green does not always know what ’s best.  They want to make sure you still have your free will.  I will not take that from you.”
    Okay!  “Do I get it back?”
    “When you know exactly how and when to use it.”
    “When is that?”
    “We ’ll see.  Time for training.”
    I held my hand out for her to lead for the third time since her arrival.  “ I don’t know where we're going.”
    Turn right, down the second stairs, and in the only door.
    Is this the dungeon where you sleep?
    No, my bed was on the opposite wall of where you laid your head last night. 
    Maddening!
    What is?
    Oh nothing.  Uh!  Blocking, blocking, blocking!
    “That ’s another way of doing it!” I laughed under my breath.
    I opened the door letting her step into the hallway that led down the main stairwell.

 
    Chapter Six
     
    I am completely and madly in love with this room.  Heaven on earth!
    “Self inflicted or the giver?”  Hearing the words “madly in love” coming from her lips made me body twitch on it ’s own.  I wanted her to say that to me and hearing it from her mouth, or even thoughts, made it even more so.  In fact, it seemed to drive everything I do since she was in danger less than twenty-four hours ago.
    “Huh?”
    “You enjoy the pain or dishing it out?”
    “Neither, Thorn .  I enjoy my thrills in other ways.”  I could tell that didn’t come out the way she intended sending an accommodating blush up her cheeks and even in her eyes.  “I mean...I simply...enjoy the sound that the wind makes when the blade sizzles through the air towards my target that I assure you, I never miss.”  
    Her angered kitten lashed out and backed me two steps with her finger to my chest trying to redeem her outburst, “I get a thrill when the whistle of my arrow