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I woke this morning feeling just a little on edge and the very human emotion of anxiety. So after dropping my baby girl to school I drove to the nearest lake and spent some time centering my spirit. The last thing I needed was to be distracted by my emotions when I return the cloak. Anytime you appear in a place more than once you run the risk of detection, whether it is a watcher or one of the other supernatural creatures roaming this earth. I couldn't risk being detected by anyone just yet.

I was just sitting in a yoga pose on the edge of the lake, when I felt Sandalphon's entity calling for help and the pain rushed through my body. As it happens I had been meditating on actually finding him. He is called the tall one amongst us. His entity in relaxed mode spans approximately 12 foot in height. He is the musician of the archangels and often heals by song or instrumental melodies.

Somehow I had made the connection to him through meditation. I felt something tearing the energy from his form. He was in such pain he did not feel the psychic connection between us. I couldn't see what was doing this to him and I didn't want to take the chance of whatever it was taking any of my energy. So I broke the connection, I felt bad but I couldn't risk being found until I knew what I was facing.

I tried to feel for him a few moments later but whatever had happened he was gone. I am still hoping that all of them who have been taken so far; have been taken to someplace I haven't found yet and I will be able to bring them back.

I tried to focus on what I had seen or heard while connected to San anything to give me a clue as to what was occurring to him and who was doing it. But bringing the memory back only showed me that all I heard was muffled deep growling sounds besides his screaming and all I could see was Heliotrope or bloodstone like a fractured shell surrounding him. The red shone with power but the green seemed almost black. These images didn't give me any new idea of what maybe occurring, or who may be behind it.... so I will continue on my present path and pray that it is the right one.

I came home and made dinner acting as if nothing had occurred it was just another ordinary day. All the while my memory was replaying San's screams in my head. By the time everyone was in bed asleep and I could leave with the cloak safely I was already back to stressed again, the main reason I was meditating in the first place. It does seem to be a coincidence that the attack occurred while I was connected to him at exactly the right moment so that he didn't notice me. Perhaps my father is not as far away from all this as I thought. Michael has always told me that everything happens for a reason. Perhaps I should give him some credit. So I took a long slow deep breath and exhaled all of my concerns away.

I shouldn't have left the cloak under the bed. I couldn't exactly pull it through the air without anyone noticing. So I had had to wait for everyone to fall asleep. "Sigh" But of course everything in its right time one should not rush. I can almost hear Gabriel saying this.

This time I flitted to a few streets away from Karlsruhe institute. I didn't want to run the risk of entering at the same coordinates as my last visit and scanned the grounds from a taller building not far from it.

There were no scientists again but definitely more security guards. That concerned me. I decided to scan the whole grounds for anything out of the ordinary including fae. Good choice.

I found Aerinar lurking on the roof of the building I would need to enter to return the cloak. He was one of Legolas's legion when I saw him last. Obviously they had detected the swap somehow. He was an extremely proficient and dedicated elf. I knew it would be difficult to distract him.

The only way I could think of was even for me a little drastic. But desperate times call for desperate measures and my secrecy was paramount. I had to create a magical creature to appear in the forest near the grounds so that he could see it from where he sat. I decided on a Niddhog I know no one has seen one in centuries and he was the last one to kill one. He was very proud of that; he had bragged to me to many times to count. So I was pretty sure he wouldn't resist the urge to go and deal with it himself without calling for help. He wouldn't want to lose his bragging rights.

I went to the forest and carefully remembering the extent of my power; slowly trickled power into the air. Until the Niddhog dragon like form appeared before me. He was beautiful if I do say so myself. Beautiful shining colorful scales of green, purple, yellow, red and silver horns. I didn't mean to make them silver but that seems to be part of this new power of mine. I smeared them a little in brown mud. Making them a bit duller and turning them a little grey. I took a minute to admire my work. Pity these creatures were so dangerously volatile. They truly were magnificent. I had not animated it yet but I moved him close to the grounds in the trees and returned to my vantage point.

Aerinar was still sitting in the same position I had left him. You have to admire the patience of elves. Time doesn't seem to exist to them when they are told to wait on guard. I have known elves to sit alert for over a week with no food just an occasional drink from their flask. It is definitely admirable unless you want to get past them of course. Then it's just annoying.

As I said before we cannot create life so to make the Niddhog come alive I would have to split my essence and put myself into the creature. While my other self returned the cloak. This is not difficult in my true form but I hadn't tried it with my human attachment. I decided I would have to carefully send part of myself into the Niddhog making sure to keep all the connections to my human self with the me that would return the cloak. That way Aerinar wouldn't have any chance of accidentally seeing any human connection to the form and of course if he happened to kill that magical me it would not affect my human self. It would drain my powers a little but I felt like that would only help me at the moment. This much power is hard to control.

I enjoyed bringing the Niddhog to live so to speak. They were such impressive beings with startling blue sapphire eyes, its sad to think that Aerinar had killed the last. Even though I knew it was necessary to stop their destructive tendencies. One of their wizards actually tried to tame one for five years. He tried but eventually the Niddhog killed him, ripping the once proud wizard into little pieces and eating him. That's when Legolas sent Aerinar to kill them all. Apparently the wizard was a friend. Anyway the last one was killed by Aerinar, in Sweden some time ago. I hoped it wouldn't be to far of a stretch to think one could have hidden here. I hoped Aerinar would believe that.

Aerinar took the bait and left the roof so fast I doubt a human would have seen a flash let alone his form.

He met me (the Niddhog) before I could even leave the forest, which was probably good, less witnesses to make forget the incident. I enjoyed fighting with Aerinar even using claws, teeth and armored tail instead of traditional weapons. It was hard to drag myself away from the aerial view. Of course I could see through my eyes through the Niddhog but different views is much more exhilarating. Elves move so fluently in battle with almost precision. But of course they could not predict the next move of their opponent it just appeared that way as they almost dance in battle. His armor and sword flashing in the twilight. The view was even more amazing with the Niddhog beautiful scales glistening.

I had to force myself to move toward the building that held the replica cloak in its iron safe. I entered the building with ease just floating through the walls until I came to the room with the iron safe. There was much more security in the room a metal detector for the humans to enter through and various other safety precautions. Someone had definitely touched the replica and by this reaction I would say I didn't weaken the shock spell enough not to hurt him or her.

I quickly swapped the cloaks making sure I reversed the spell before picking it up of course. I could see the other me was still having fun with Aerinar so I searched the room for clues on who my spell had hurt.

I found the incident report on a computer. The man's name was Wolfgang Baum and he was at the Helios heart clinic on life support. This was devastating news to me. I hate hurting anyone. This was a stupid mistake to make. I knew my powers were so much stronger I shouldn't have risked it.

I had to go and heal him. We are allowed to do that without council if it is an unnatural injury caused by a supernatural power. But I had to decide whether to end the fight first with my other self.

I exited the building taking the replica cloak with me and went back to the top of the building. Luckily I (the Niddhog) had bought the fight closer to the fence of the grounds. The trees would not obstruct my view. Aerinar was starting to look tired. I didn't want to kill him so I decided it was best to end this battle then. After I would flit to the clinic, Aerinar would not look there if he suspected foul play, as elves don't really care about humans. It would not occur to them that someone else would but just in case I set up a short forgetting spell in the air to be triggered by the dissolving of the Niddhog. I telepathically erased the security cameras setting it for one hour of loss of footage from the time I had arrived at the grounds.

I knew I would have to time my exit from the form of the Niddhog precisely. A millisecond before I allowed the deadly stroke. Then I would have to pull myself together and flit to the hospital in the next millisecond if possible.

I waited for Aerinar to swing his sword high and put the Niddhog's jugular in its path just before the blade hit I pulled myself out of the body and returned to myself. I flitted to the clinic. The energy I used to create the Niddhog should have dissipated into the air. Which should trigger the forgetting spell I placed in the air. It had been less than an hour from my arrival so the loss of camera footage should have been enough. Hopefully I have covered all bases.

Once I had arrived at the hospital I had to locate Mr. Baum. I found him in an ICU unit hooked up to a life support system. I felt remorse for his pain.

I had not healed since gaining my power back and the things that had happened since when I used them made me pause. I scanned his body to see how much damage had been done. Unfortunately without a heart transplant in the next 24 hours he hadn't a chance. It was my fault he was in this mess so I had to try.

I called on my first memory of healing. In it Michael had told me to clear my mind and breathe as if I was one with the human. Slowly repairing from the inside. Overtime I had stopped this practice just letting my powers do the healing almost automatically. I thought this time I should follow his instructions to the letter. So I placed myself in Wolfgang's body slowly healing him cell by cell with a trickle of power. I pulled myself out of him and immediately cloaked myself. Wolfgang opened his eyes. The monitors lit up and the room became filled with nurses and doctors. They disconnected him from the machines and he sat up. He will be fine. I breathed a sigh of relief and flitted home.

It was only an hour or so before morning but I reconnected with my human self and collapsed into darkness.