<strong>Alana</strong><br/><br/>Rene returns the smile, seeming much more at ease then when Alana first came upon her.<br/><br/>Alana turned to check on the bag of supplies they had put together when the hairs on the back of her neck prickled. A second later the emergency room was bathed in blue light, Alana screaming in pain as her body was wracked from head to toe.<br/><br/>Rene screamed and fell back against the wall, trying to stay out of the column of shimmering light that had descended through the ceiling. Loose papers and supplies swirled about in the room as a wind whipped. Alana had sunk to her knees at the center of the storm.<br/><br/>Then the blue light vanished and Alana found herself gasping for breath, but at least the pain was gone. She tingled for a moment, then felt fine.<br/><br/>Rene continued staring at her. "Are you ... okay?" she asked cautiously.<br/><br/>Alana wasn't so sure. The pain had vanished, but she felt strange, different.