Those guys came right at us and as they came, one pulled out a…something like a blade, and poked towards the face of imad.-hey you Buddhist badass! ...o you not know to avoid messing with our women…-That was all. I saw imad moving his hands faster than lightning, and the weapon was thrown away. As the thugs jumped at him, he pushed me away with his one hand and with the other, he took the weapon in his hand as he rolled away.-hameeda, run!-I ran away. He handles 4 guys with no weapon. 3 guys with. Embarrassed at being caught, she scrabbled around and mumbled an apology then looked at him and grinned sheepishly, by now he was next to her and she could feel the heat from him, the heat of a man she missed so much, she could smell him he smelt of earth and leaves, he eased himself down to sit beside her and raised his hand to her tangled curls, that lazy smile again on his lips as her removed a leaf from her hair, his fingers brushed her cheek and she turned her face towards his hand and. Within 24 hours this person will find that not only are they nowprofoundly physically changed, but also a combination of the pepper'smysterious properties and acts preformed by the brujas have seen to itthat the person is able to only speak the secret language of the witchwomen.All other known languages, spoken & written are suppressed. Compelledto seek out the elder bruja, the training of a new student starts andnew lifeblood is injected into the Old Ways.After a time the changed person finds. I didn’t tell her about college.” She smiled, “Didn’t want to spoil Mom’s image of her little girl back then.”I laughed a little about that, “Little girl? You were in your twenties!”“What, you don’t think that Katie will be our ‘little girl’ when she’s twenty?”I hadn’t thought about that. “Can we keep both of them locked in their rooms till they’re thirty?”Addie laughed at the thought and rolled over to go to sleep. I lay awake thinking about the possibility of my mother and Laura going clothes.