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waistband, flipping it over agilely in his hand and causing a four-foot beam of blue light to appear.
    As she watched gape-mouthed, he swung the light saber in an arc over his head, then through the microwave, which seemed to hiccup once, let out a belch of black smoke, and die. It was cleanly sliced in two.
    Of course, the Berserker was smiling as if he had justslain Loki himself. He retracted the light blade and returned it to his waistbelt.
    Her microwave! Her sweet inoffensive microwave!
    Which she hadn’t finished making the payments on yet.
    Shock was rapidly being replaced with anger. It was the last straw! No one should have a day like this. No one! She had reached her limit.
    “That’s it! You are out of here, pal!” She stormed over to the kitchen door, flung it open, and pointed in the general direction of the backyard. “Out!”
    He stood silently leaning against her refrigerator, arms crossed over his chest, staring at her. A gust of wind blew up and slammed the door shut.
    Damn it, nothing was going right today. Nothing! Nothing! Nothing! She swung the door open again.
    “I said out!”
    Another gust of wind blew up and slammed the door closed. Only this time she realized that the wind had come from inside the kitchen.
    “I think not,” he stated firmly.
    “You—did you do that?” He quirked his eyebrow. She sat down on the kitchen floor. “Oh, my.”
    He came down on one knee beside her, his cape floating around him. “Something has upset you, Adeeann?”
    Her gray eyes were huge as they focused on him. “Lorgin, you have supernatural… powers? ” she squeaked.
    He put his warm hand on her shoulder. “Powers of the Four, yes. Do not concern yourself with this, Adeeann. I am beginning to accept that this is an unenlightened world and as such—”
    “What do you mean, ‘powers of the four’? Like, can you read my mind?” Her expression turned horrified at the thought. Especially concerning her earlier thoughts of him.
    He laughed outright at the expression on her face. “No, Little Fire, I cannot.”
    Little Fire? Her hand went unconsciously to her red hair. He noticed her action and seemed amused by it. She supposed that at five foot five, she appeared to him as nothing more than that gnat she had compared herself to earlier. Little Fire, indeed!
    “Powers of the Four,” he broke into her thoughts, “over earth, wind, water, and”—he looked at her hair pointedly and grinned—“ fire. ”
    Don’t count on it, buddy, she mused. It seemed as though her alien had a streak of arrogance in him about as wide as the San Diego Freeway. “Are you saying you have pyschokinetic ability over the elements?”
    “I believe that is how you would phrase it.” He looked at her and his pastel eyes twinkled. “Only a seventh-level mystic could read your mind, Adeeann. I have several incarnations to go before I achieve this state. Besides, this state can only be acquired after the harmonic—”
    “Please, you’re giving me a headache. I have no idea what you’re talking about.” She put a hand to her forehead.
    He stood, offering her a hand up. “Perhaps it is this hunger you mentioned earlier.” She placed her small hand in his large one, choosing to ignore the strange frisson that traveled up her arm at his touch.
    “Yes,” she replied, standing. “We might as well pick up a hamburger on the way to the mall.”
    It had begun as soon as they had left her house.
    Lorgin seemed very uncomfortable in her car, almost turning green when she got onto the highway. This from a man who traveled space, time, and dimensions. Of course, Boston drivers could make anybody sick, she supposed, reluctantly giving him his due.
    As soon as she spotted the yellow arches, Deana swungthe car in, drove through the drive-thru, and ordered them some burgers and fries. He was suitably impressed with the speed with which the food was delivered to them.
    Swinging into a parking space, she handed him a bag of food,