Her wand was called the demon root, but the old shopkeeper had assuredJaux that the wand wasn't being literal with the name. The wand did stillhave so...ething to do with the transformation. It had led Jaux to theblack statue, and it was the origin to the purple light.Then Jaux thought about the black statue. She had never seen a statuemade of dark stones before. Her new violet eyes and the statue's purplegemstone eyes were also a similarity that had not escaped Jaux's notice.It wasn't. A top secret Dorado operative within the C.I.A." I have heard of him. Keep going," the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency said."Well, sir! He is thirteen for thirteen on targets assigned. We think he could successfully train as a dancer to tour North Africa and recruit top prospects for data intelligence." I'll need to meet with him at once," the five-foot-eleven, two-hundred-twenty-one pound, dark-skinned Marine Corps lieutenant general ordered.A bevy of staffers went about making it. .. Tio Argent!" Little Espiranza came rushing towards Uncle Argent, and leaped... knowing, like only a trusting child would know, that she would be caught.After catching the little bundle of energy, he hugged Espiranza close. "Hello little one, have you been a good girl?" Oh yes," she said. "I even got a gold star in school yesterday for my drawing!" That's great!" he said."Si, we are all proud of our little artist," said Espiranza's grandmother Luisa as she came through the door, and hugged. It doesn't take long before the sight and the overall depressing mood of the day begins to drag you down again, so you move back to your bedroom and lay back-first on the bed, wishing to high heaven that this would just be over, so you could actually move on with your life, to prison or back to college. At this point, either one looks palatable compared to your current circumstances.You're still reminiscing over and silently bemoaning your woes ten minutes later when it happens.It's firm, but.