Healso realized that despite his earlier problems fitting in thebeanbag chair, he was now curled up in it quite comfortably. Everything, indeed, seem...d larger and brighter than it had before. Zane struggled to free himself from the chair, and stood up. He stoodup and found himself eye-level with the side of a table. Lookingaround in surprise, he saw a little blond-haired girl standing nearby,and he was eye-level with her as well. He started to speak to her,but then he noticed that she was. The Evening begins"I can't wait-... !," Lisa started to say. Just then, the doorbell went off again. "Oh, that'll be Ann, I'll bet," she said.When David answered the door, Ann stepped inside. As he was taking her coat she looked past him to see Lisa Chen was already there sitting on his large bed."You're late." Lisa said, with a snide little laugh, "We thought maybe you got scared and decided not to come," she lied convincingly.Ann was annoyed at herself for having let Lisa Chen arrive at. “For very good reasons,” Hermes agreed. “If there is a Heinrich warded house there, you wouldn’t spot it anyway.”“True,” Alameda admitted.Two seconds later she’d opened a hidden portal near the dwelling and we approached carefully.“Very heavily warded, defence wise,” Róisín murmured.“Passive though,” Hermes added. “We can try knocking, they won’t operate for that.”“Agreed, but have your ward-breaker available, John, just in case,” Morgana added.“We’re ready with an anti-teleport screen too,. They are small, but there will be enough to get us all through the winter." Pete, Sam made the suggestion to giving you the deed to the valley where you live. The only restriction is, if you ever pull up stakes, the land comes back to the ranch." Kenny was pretty damn fast at thinking, himself.Cold weather was coming. I had never considered it, but Kenny said we should cut hay to feed the horses. There were some fields off the road to Button Box that the cattle hadn't got to. Kenny was in town.