After materializing inside it, I carefully canceled the freeze spell. Eogham looked around to see where he was on awakening."Where are we? What are yo... doing?" he demanded, his demand but a whisper."I have brought you to your final resting place. You have received the last remaining seed of the 'Tree of Life'. It is growing inside of you even as we speak. It will first grow downward into the earth to establish its root system there. To do that it will begin to consume you from the inside."Once. You didn’t back out of our bet.““Perhaps we both won. I said that you would have to do anything I asked if I won. But all I want from you is to help me continue being a girl any time an opportunity arises. We probably shouldn’t tell Mom and Dad. I doubt they’d approve or even understand why their son suddenly wants to be their other daughter. They’d give you grief for letting this happen.”“You got it, bro. I’m happy to help you. But let me tell you something else. Early on, I realized you were. In the mirror he could see her luscious lips parting into a smile. “So, no boyfriend then?” Jim was hopeful. He knew he didn’t stand a chance, but if she was single it would make things a lot more exciting when he fantasized about her later. “Not at the moment.” “Really?” Jim tried to hide his excitement. “I find it hard to believe that a beautiful girl like you can’t find a boyfriend in this city.” “I never said I can’t find a boyfriend. Finding a guy is not a problem. Finding one that. "And you heard the second reading at last Sunday's Matins. You know - how wives should be obedient to their husbands." St Paul was never married. And he'd most likely never met a creature like Albert!"Meanwhile Frieda had arrived home and was letting Snowy in for her morning saucer of milk and plate of tuna steak. The sounds of furious mastication, both canine and feline, filled the air as she went upstairs to shower.One day she would find out where Snowy had appeared from - and kept.