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With Held  "Let go, you jerks! I didn't do anything!" Ella
screamed, as security thugs grabbed her arms tightly and started
dragging her out of the store.  Where were the mall cops today?
Ella thought, because clearly, they must be on break whenever
something really bad happens.  Ella was only trying to
understand what the cashier was doing trying to ask her out,
using her extremely useful and sadly, hard for people to
except-- psychic powers.  She tried to get away from the thugs
without using her powers, but it was no use. The thugs were
pretty buff, and she was a scrawny 5'3", fourteen year old.
There was no way she could get free without knocking them out
with a psychic attack. And that was just not going to happen in
the middle of the very crowded mall on a Saturday afternoon.
Where, Ella was doing just fine drawing people's eyes to her.
She didn't need her extreme beauty or very bright clothes.
Sometimes Ella believed she was an Alien from