The stars. How kalinda would like nothing more than to become one herself. She sighed, taking a deep breath. She rose higher into the night sky, as if by her will alone, she could make herself disappear into it. The night was calm. 

She had flown to the school. So what was stopping ner now? Yes, she had been ckumsy, stumbling along in the sky, but she had flown. What was different?

People. Thats what. People around her, their emotions presssing against her sheilds, her own a turmoil since coming nere. Control.

She continued to rise. And then merely let herself fall. Sometimes...sometimes you needed to fall to ffy. Her blocks stripped away as she fell, and the emotioms poured in, twisting, writhering inside of her, threatening to explode out of her, threatening to cause damage to everything around her.

Control! Don't let them control you. You control them.

She pushdd them down, sent them out harmlessly into the night, nothing more than a slight breeze, drifting away into the night. She found herself laughing, thrilled

and then fear, always the hardest of emotions to control, gripped her. "Griffin!" She screamed