But you're going to need to get that mud outbefore it dries and gets caked in there. It will be much harder gettingit out then." Seeing her standing t...ere waiting, I found it hard to tell her what Iwas thinking. So I just smiled, walked over to where she was standing,and bent over the sink. Aunt Joan put one hand across my shoulders, theother on my forehead, then carefully moved my head under the tap.As the warm water flowed over my head, I noticed something dark andbrownish draining into the. Your arms stretched out across mine, fingers interlaced, squeezing like a rabid heartbeat. Your eyes, magnetic and radiant in the dim bedroom light, holding mine in a spell. Without words they tell me to not dare look away or blink now, to gaze into this raging inferno we have created.And I feel the electricity here in us, beginning to spread like faint pinpricks just beneath the skin. They become tingles that are almost too much to take. You are the tempest raging over me, a violent and. Chia and I left. She took me back to the hotel in the same manor she took me to see the elders, silence. As she pulled up outside the hotel I offered to buy some lunch for us both to get better acquainted. Those dark eyes of hers held me for a moment before her lips finished me off with one word. ‘No.’ I spent the rest of the day exploring the town, eating on my own when I found the diner and seeing for myself the places that Chukka told me about when we talked. As the day drew to an end and. The reaper began to whisper and circle the wide-eyed tiny boy.Zak was glad Seth hadn’t shifted into his tiger, although his tiger stripes had appeared. He’d hissed and snarled as he stretched into a fully adult male. What surprised Zak the most was how his hair grew with him. When Amaranth finally stopped her magic, Seth trembled at her feet, the spill of his white hair almost coiling around him. He looked up into Amaranth’s face, the lower half of his face sporting a beard and mustache..