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    West stood up also and grasped her hand. “Is it okay if I have my brother cut you a check for your fee and expenses?”
    Agnes smiled widely and shook her head, her eyes twinkling with barely-suppressed joy. “Oh no, we are paid in full. Let me just give you one final piece of advice. Keep her safe, and don’t let the world know about her. They would eat her alive, trying to get a little piece of the magic that is inside her.”
     
     
     

Chapter 10
     
    Katerina sprawled on her bed, her hands pulling her hair theatrically. She knew she was being sensational, but she didn’t care. If ever there had been a drama-filled moment in her life, this was it. The old woman’s words echoed in her ear. You could be the greatest doctor that ever lived. She didn’t even want to be a doctor anymore. She would settle for being a housewife at this point. A normal housewife, with no abilities or anything interesting going on in her life. Why couldn’t she and West be normal and have a normal life and be in a normal relationship? Why did she have to be caught up in this mess and have all of this happening to her? God! She was nothing but a freak! An aberration! A mutant!
    The feeling of the woman’s skin underneath her fingers came back to her. She rubbed her hands together fiercely trying to erase all memory of what had happened. She didn’t want to think about it, but her mind went there anyway. She had put her hands on the woman's shoulders, not expecting anything, not trying to do anything, just trying to make the woman shut up already. But then something had happened, and it had been interesting . She’d talked to the cells with her hands, and they had responded. They had talked back! Not in words, but in something else that she could understand like words. Life force. Energy. Whatever it was, she had felt it in her fingertips and it had made sense to her. Cells and tissues had woken up and rushed to be near her. The cells had been old, tired, almost worn out, but her tiny bit of inexperienced communication had made them stand up and practically cheer. She had felt them vibrating through the women’s skin, and she had liked it . She had wanted to talk to the cells. She had wanted to wake up the organs. She had wanted to get the hormones flowing. It had felt good, almost like she was born- Katerina squeezed her eyes shut against the thought. It wasn’t true. She wasn’t born to do this. She wasn’t born to wake up sleeping cells and converse with lumbering organs. Katerina hid her face in her hands and tears spilled down her cheeks. She’d never had such a ludicrous thought in her life. Lumbering organs? Cells didn’t sleep and organs didn’t lumber. Why was this happening to her? She wished this was all over. She almost wished she was dead. That would make all of this stop.
    A small but very powerful voice inside her head spoke up. Be careful what you wish for, your body obeys your commands even when you don’t know they are commands. Katerina’s tears stopped, and she lay suddenly very still, trying to hear if the voice had anything else to say. When it was quiet, she dropped her head to the mattress and cried bitterly again. Why had West invited that old woman into her home? She hadn’t said anything helpful. Anger reared up inside her like a charging horse and suddenly she wanted to find West, scream at him, tear at him with her fingernails. Her hands bunched into fists and pulled at the blanket. When the old woman was gone, she would talk to West. She would tell him how wrong he was. She would make him understand.
    She lay on the mattress and pulled deep breaths into her lungs. After a few moments she realized there were no voices coming from the living room. Had the old woman left already? She dried her face with the blanket and pushed herself off the bed, then tiptoed to the door. She pressed her ear to it and didn’t hear anything, so she pulled it open and walked out into the living room. The