The Secret

Chapter 8:

When Astra and I got to my apartment, she released my arm while I went and locked the door. After I locked my door, I went over to Astra and said, "That hurt a lot." "Shush," she responded. She went over to my blinds and curtains and closed all of them. 'Ok...," I thought. She's officially scaring me. "Astra what's going on? You're scaring me." "You've got powers don't you," she asked me. "How did you know?" Instead of telling me how she knew, she decided to show me. She held out both of her arms and turned both of her hands with her palms up toward the sky. In both of her hands she created fire. Then she changed it to water. After that, she looked at two of the rocks that were on my coffee table, furrowed her eyebrows, and the rocks exploded into a lot of tiny rocks that looked like gravel. And, as if that wasn't enough already, she immediately thrust out her hands and created a gust of wind that knocked me down. "How's that for your explanation?" I was speechless. My sister had powers and never told me. "How did you get your powers?" "The same way you did," she responded. "I was dipped into liquid and pulled out. " "I wasn't dipped into the liquid," I said. "I was pushed into it." Astra didn't look surprised in the least bit. "My apologies about that. My men said that there was an intruder in my facility and I told them to scare said intruder off. The head of my security took it upon himself to carry out an order to kill the intruder. However, when I found out it was you, I told my men to stand down. My head of security was so angry that his plan to directly disobey my orders in the first place didn't work, that he pushed you into my creation. My new head of security is the one who pulled you out." "Oh," was all I could say.