Free The Sentinel by Holly Martin Page B

fine.’ He blushed.
    ‘Quinn don’t be a martyr, she only lives two minutes away.’
    He nodded reluctantly.
    ‘Constance?’ I asked.
    ‘She’s a Zeki, a healer.’ Alexandria explained, as she flicked her phone on and walked out the church.
    I grinned guiltily at the prospect that my heavy handiness was going to introduce me to another member of this strange world, the Zeki.
    I looked at the Guardians. ‘How come you guys didn’t get burned?’
    ‘Alexandria was right, our skin literally is a lot thicker and harder,’ said Lucas. He rolled up the sleeve on his shirt and nodded to Persia. She rolled her eyes and created a small fireball in her hand. Lucas put his arm directly above the flame and I let out an involuntary gasp as the flames licked his arm. He didn’t even flinch. I moved closer and though I could feel the heat from the flames, they didn’t seem to be making any difference to Lucas at all.
    ‘Does it not hurt?’
    ‘It tingles, but no it doesn’t hurt.’
    ‘Have you finished showing off now?’ asked Persia and I saw a sudden flash of warmth in Lucas’s eyes as he looked at her and nodded.
    She let her flame wink out.
    ‘Ok, let’s try something else,’ said Persia, magnanimously moving on from the fact that I had nearly just killed everyone and that my Guardians really were immortal.
    ‘Something safer,’ muttered Eli, his eyes filled with anger as he glared first at me then at Persia.
    Persia ignored him. ‘We could try something really easy, telekinesis, that’s one of the first things I learnt.’
    I felt my eyes widen in excitement.
    She pulled me out the church and my Guardians followed. She looked around and obviously spotted a likely target.
    ‘Here, this branch, it’s small and light enough for your first go.’ She waved the branch at me and placed it on top of the bonnet of the car. ‘So you can see it clearly. Now quite obviously the lighter things are easier to move than heavier things, so we’ll start off easy. You just have to visualize it moving in your mind. You might want to imagine that you are touching it with your hands, see yourself picking it up.’
    I stared at the branch, unblinking, willing it to move. I stared at it until my eyes started to water under the strain, but it didn’t even flicker. I sighed. ‘Are you sure I have all this great power?’
    ‘You just don’t believe you can do it, you have to believe in it for it to happen, concentrate on it happening, don’t hope it will happen, know that it will happen,’ Persia told me, sternly.
    ‘Ok, I can lift the branch, I can,’ I said, more for her benefit than mine. I stared at it, imagining it lifting it off the bonnet of the car. Suddenly it flickered, rattled a little bit and then was still. ‘I did it, I can’t believe it.’ I clapped my hands excitedly.
    ‘Easy there kid, the wind could have done that,’ Seth said with a grin.
    I would show him, now I knew I had it in me, I would show him. I focussed on the branch harder, knowing I could make it move. I visualized lifting the branch and pulling it to me. I held my hand towards it, hoping to catch it if it flew in my direction. I pulled as hard as I could. Something in the reflection of the car’s windscreen caught my attention and to my horror the car suddenly flicked up as if it was caught in a hurricane and came soaring through the air towards me. Seth moved in a blur to stand in front of me but Persia was seemingly quicker, with a flick of her hand the car changed direction at the last second and crashed upside down against a nearby tree.
    I stood aghast at the crumpled wreckage; this great silver Land Rover now nothing more than a pile of twisted metal. The silence from my Guardians was almost tangible. I chanced a look at Eli to see whether he was likely to kill me but he was staring at the car with his mouth hanging open.
    Izri let out a stifled giggle and I looked at her. ‘Wow,’ she said.
    ‘You can say that again,’ said