"Yes, I know the necklace was enchanted," Sheena says. "Like my cards. And it makes me wonder if--like my cards--the less 'power' given it, would it still have the same effect? But that's not really the issue, Raine." Her gaze becomes direct. "Just because you can't physically turn into a dragon when enraged doesn't mean you can't feel the equivalent of a dragon's fury."

She pauses, choosing her words carefully.

"And that's what you have to prevent. The necklace gave you an idea of what happens when you let your anger consume you and eat at you. It takes over, changing you into someone unrecognizable." In this case, literally. "And you should be angry at me--it's natural. Or have you forgotten who you're talking to?" She's being blunt now.

"I've been where you are. Seen people come and go, grown attached to them--only to have them taken away, leaving me behind. And while I couldn't yell at them for doing that--even though i was happy they went home--or yell at the one who caused it, I still let out my anger." She smiles wickedly for a moment before becoming serious again.

"But here you have an opportunity to do what a lot of people can't--yell at one of the people involved. Or ask me that one question that always comes to mind when something like this happens."

How could she leave Raine there--like the others had?