“Mr. Morales, I’m a very lucky man. Most of the things I do were ... given to me – at least the basics. I didn’t earn them per se, and sometim...s I feel guilty because of that. For the visit, I could have worn a sidearm or carried a rifle or crossbow, but that, in a way, would have been a lie, maybe even condescension. Ship and Little One have given – awakened, I suppose is a better term – talents that I, basically, didn’t know I possessed. Some of those talents allow me to protect myself, my. I also went through the program designed to unload the fields. I asked Vernon to inquire as to the alien's understanding of a stellar-level energy release, and what could happen if the field power supplies were interrupted before they were gracefully brought down. In his pride, Vernon told the alien that I had designed and built the first slipstream drive and determined how to use it safely. I was brought in to consult over the implementation of the field generators several times after that.The. “I wonder where he went.”Ran off scared is where he went.“Fan off scared isn’t a place.”You know what I mean.“Oohh, do you think that’s the place we’re supposed to go?” the witch asks, pointing to a large stronghold. “That place looks scary.”It’s probably meant to. And if it’s meant to be scary then I can only imagine what lives inside.“Whatever it is it must be powerful because my father obviously couldn’t stop it from stealing the book.”Now that you bring it up, there is something fishy. The thought went around like a carousel in his head as he watched her sob into Michelle's shoulder. Di's okay.Dorothy Willard looked like a grandmother but carried herself like a drill sergeant. There was a steel core under her floral veneer that Lola Crabtree was getting to know first hand."I don't care what you think Mizz Crabtree. The law is perfectly clear in this case. My associate is at the courthouse right now filing an emergency motion in family court to stop this illegal action and.