. except Doctor Janie and her twelve gauge pump.If I knew how the watch worked I wouldn't have worried ... but nobody told me anything. Mushroom, they...treat me worse than mushrooms, I thought.So ... I didn't know that the reconstructed watch would put me back home milliseconds after I left and do it so fast that it would take an ultra high speed camera played back at slower than refrigerated molasses poured from a small mouthed jug to see I'd been gone.If I had known it ... I still wouldn't. Now, understand, he wasn’t too worldly. He was just out of the academy and I was his first assignment. Oh well, we would learn together. We both looked forward to the experience. We got through kindergarten together and looked forward to first grade. When I went to school, he was alone for the first time during the day. He missed me. Of course, he couldn’t jump on me like a puppy when I got home, but I did feel a warm sense when I got into range of his being. When we first started, his range. "We aren't finished yet," I informed him."It looks finished," he said."No, it requires re-hardening. The heat has destroyed the temper of the cutting edges. They won't stay sharp," I told him. "I'll need to reheat the entire blade and then allow it to cool slowly. I'll do that before we go to lunch and then harden it after we return from lunch."I changed my fire to a long narrow one, cast a protective spell on the entire blade and placed it in the fire to heat while I prepared a long bed of. "Thank you for letting me stay for a while" Glenda said."Glenda, you know we love you and are excited you ask us" I replied. "This will be different for all of us, but we will all be ok. I think it will be fun, actually." Me, too" Sandra chimed in. "We are already so much family." I'm so glad you feel that way. I was just a little nervous" Glenda replied.We finished lunch and I went to take a nap. When I woke up, hurting and full, the girls were sitting on the sofa drinking a glass of wine and.