Like any other skill you have to practice if you want to be any good with the magical gifts Garou can learn from spirits. And after a year and a half with her Gnosis bound, Stacia's rusty. Direct the Storm can only be learned by Shadow Lords who have achieved the rank of Adren; it's one of the more powerful gifts that Stacia has and it involves touching and molding someone else's Rage. And Mackenzie's Rage is a wild, writhing thing that's been gnawing deeper into her since the deaths of her packmates. It's good to have it out in the open instead of turned inward, but oh does it have teeth.

The flashes of Ace's memories of Stacia's future don't help. She wants to ask, her sincere curiosity about people is one of the things that makes her a good Ragabash, the desire to know them and understand them, and Ace is her dearest friend and longest-running project. She wants to know what it all means and it tears at her focus. She needs to concentrate.

"Let her go on three!" she yells over the sound of Ace's agonized roar. "She'll let you go! One! Two!

"THREE!"