"That's impossible," Zhang said sharply, his fingers moving quickly across his tablet as he tried to fix the problem. "The dampeners are made specifically to stop any such connection....."
But it was already too late.
Kailani felt it first. A pulling feeling, a vibration in the very center of her being that went around all the technology blocking her powers. The pearl was responding to her, recognizing her as family. It was a piece of her world's old stories made real, and it was crying out because it was also trapped, calling to her across the cold laboratory.
For three years, she had been helpless. Trapped. Studied like a bug under glass.
But in this moment, she felt something she had not felt since they caught her: hope.
