” Gwen’s eyebrows shot up, and she turned Alicia toward her carriage, pulling on the blonde’s hand to encourage her to hurry. “Who is that dev...lishly handsome young man? The one who can’t take his eyes off you?” Gwen whispered. Alicia glanced over her shoulder, and knew there was only one man Gwen could have meant. “Thakkor,” she answered, her whisper carrying far more emotion than she intended. “Oh my. Now we certainly need to talk,” Gwen teasingly responded. She turned to her footman and. ” She nodded, silent at his request. At least, this time, in his embrace, she could breathe. “And, for God’s sake, don’t leave!”~~~~~“Well, now I know what it’s really like,” Jake told her. “Being you, I mean.” It was the first words he’d spoken to her since yesterday morning. He was still unnerved by her presence, but, at least now he could look across the room at her and not feel hysterical inside. “Sucks, huh?” Béla replied quietly. He had spent the night holding her tightly, almost like a. “Why does it turn you on?” I asked, hoping he would have a reasonable answer. “I don’t know, it just does” he said, “Do you think I could watch it sometime?” my mouth dropped open and I felt my stomach churn. “You actually want to watch us, you know, doing stuff?” I asked again, making sure I’d heard him correctly. “Well, why not?” he said, laughing. “Are you sure?” I asked, feeling rather nervous and unsure about the whole thing. “Yeah”, he said, “When can I see it?” “When do you want to see. Wisdom from the mouths of babes, Ursus thought.I like to believe that I come by it inherently.Indeed. We'll let the problem rattle around in our subconscious for a few hours before we make up our mind.Do we have to work the spell at the exact moment of the solstice to get the magic bonus points?The ideal would be to time the peak of the spell with the instant of the solstice, but that is seldom possible, and getting close still yields benefits, which is good, because we don't know the exact.