Gritting her teeth, theQueen's head housekeeper drew back her arm and sent theflexible withe whistling across the quivering rotundities of t...e Princess Lesley'swell-wealed bottom with ferocious zeal. The snickering wisp of the switch was too quick to see. But a moment afterit snapped back, there appeared the white line that slowly merged into red,evenly bisecting the space between the two previous cuts. The princess's scorchedbottom rounds jerked uncontrollably in a clenching. The way Hood looked at me was beyond any of those. He looked at me the way we look at people who are convicted of the worst crimes imaginable. He looked at me as if I was no better than all of the other pieces of shit we arrest and wish they'd never see the light of day again.I noticed that I got that look frequently on my trip through the building. Every time I entered an area, all of the talking stopped and no one would meet my eyes, but everyone stared at me. What the hell had I done?I. " Contain me? What do you mean, 'contain' me?" From what we understand, the gods draw on the energy of Earth's magicalfield so that as it grows in power so do they.However, they also draw strength from what they're the god of. A goddessof love would draw strength from love, a god of fire from fire,etcetera. What we do at the school that might cause a god to manifesthere is transform people. So the transformations had to stop. We madesure that they did. Then, for the next three years, we studied. "But they went through thetrouble of getting me that guitar. I'd feel like a jackass if I justleft them right now."It was at that moment that I noticed Kelly's face. It was as if alightbulb had gone off in her head. "Hey, yeah the guitar! So, like,you changed when you played it right?"I nodded an affirmative. "So just, I dunno, play it again and maybeyou'll change back."DUH! Crap, why hadn't I thought of that? Without hesitating I got upand went over to grab the guitar. I thought of a.