” She looked back at me with her own little smirk…the kind every man would wish a woman to give him. I opened her door for her to get in. I tried ...o walk around the front of the car as cooly as I could but I imagine I looked more like a school boy with a girl finally paying attention to him. I got in, turned kind of catawampus in my seat and told her, “Let’s go….let’s find a place that is just for us.” She started driving….and I just sat there mesmerized by her. I was feeling fricken ‘giddy’.. I needed the money to get my brother out of prison. I’d stopped stealing before that, but I took it up one last time to get him out, and it didn’t go well. Or maybe it did go well—Corec ended up paying Barz’s penalty fee and my own. I don’t know how I’ll ever repay him. Maybe I should forgive him for not telling me about Ellerie right away. Anyway, we’d actually run into each other before that, and he’d cast the binding spell without realizing it, so the day after he caught me, the runes showed. .. a rather old dialect of Gaelic. One used only by Third and higher Level Sorcerers," I pointed out."Yes, we know. We haven't had any trouble with it," Laura told me, joining us."How long have you been reading from the 'Book'?" I managed to remember to ask."Only for a week or so," Lesia told me casually."So you could read the other Magic books in Gaelic then?" I asked."Yes! Do you have any?" they asked excitedly."I have a couple and can get more, but I'll need to go to Georgia and see the. ‘I’m sure that she’ll be fine and not want any fuss.’ ‘Yes, but, she was only wearing a little jacket. And the weather is starting to look real bad.’ Mrs Coats was on the verge of wringing her hands in her distress. Daniel gave a sigh and pulled on the coat, that he’d been taking off when he had entered the kitchen. ‘If it’ll make you feel better I’ll go and fetch her for you.’ Mrs Coats flashed him a look of relief and handed him the bag. ‘Just in case…’ she murmured not quite meeting his.