She was studying her as well, but when the other took a step closer, she took a step back. Blast it all, she was a cage fighter who had lived on her own for more than a decade. She'd known Dane less than a year, so why did she wish he was there? She could handle herself! She was no fawning soft little girl!

She threw her shoulders back and lifted her chin, giving no more ground. "I suppose that depends on how you are defining powers, and who you are asking," she said finally. "I am with skilled at what I am skilled at, more so than most. If you wish to call that a power, so be it." She survived 14 years by hiding everything about herself. This girl had already startled her into saying more than she ought to.