Look over there, by the trees; see the deer?"Ashley nodded. "Wow. Okay, can you teach me about the local animals?" Sure, it'll be a fair trade off."Th...y watched as the deer made their way along the tree edge of thewoods."Tammy, if it was possible, would you like to be a real girl? I don'tmean having a sex change, but become a complete biological female?" I'd love it," replied Tammy."There's a spell in the book for changing gender," said Ashley.Tammy looked at her sister. "Really?" Yes, and I. If he didn't know better, he would have thought that her expression was the truth."Sophia!" Esterhazy strode forward past Miller to make his obeisance to Sophia. Bren looked down on him with a distaste that he kept well-hidden while Philip knelt on the deck and prostrated himself in the way that all Anatorayen citizens were expected to before their royalty. If any man had done so to Bren, he would have kicked him in the head."Good morning, Philip. How kind of you to come all this way to see me.. “Get up,” Adrian said to the kids. “All of you, go!” Adrian pointed to the crowd. “It’s over!” “They…” one of the soldiers began to say. “They are teenagers that stole small items, from a no-name mall, in the middle of nowhere. They have enough adrenaline coursing through their bodies to fuel a football team, and you are pointing a gun at them,” Adrian whispered to the soldier. The soldier nodded. “Sorry, it’s been…” “Get over here,” Adrian yanked one of the teens closer. “Where are the items?”. Apparently, the unknown parties had all taken a whack at the guilty party (Mister Higgins) to assure no one single person could be seen as individually responsible for the crime.In a way, Eve was relieved that Mister Higgins, the hidden warlock, was attended to in that fashion, because she had heard from her other sister witches, already properly initiated into the coven, that he was prone to favor their hindquarters taking his pleasure with abusive language and obscene behavior in a manner.