Kit grinned. "Course we are!", she said. "Back home, I could put people into a trance or even put them to sleep when I played my flupe, and my brother has his flink."

"But the grown ups are, well, grown-ups," she said with a slight shrug. "They're bigger and stronger and have to do most of the real fighting. Cheetara's super-fast, Tygra can turn invisible, Panthro's really strong and good at building things, and Lion-O has the Sword of Omens and everything. Kinda hard to compete with that most of the time."