" Is it about this?" Angela asked, pointing to the news article about their school."Gee, ya think?" Rebecca replied. "What else could it be? I bet som...one didn't read any further than the headline, and is raising a stink. You know how 'textiles' get naturism all wrong at first." From her attitude, you'd have thought that Rebecca had been a naturist all her life instead of less than two weeks. "I hope Mom can really sell them on how OK it is. Otherwise, all our parents are in trouble." She. We'll talk at home." My mum's been ill," I told the kids. "I've been worried." My mom's having another baby," one girl announced; otherwise they took the information in stride and we returned to the Mueller's stag beetle. "These come from Queensland, where it's damp. There are other kinds of stag beetle in the forests. Some near Sydney. There might be some near Margaret River. We're going to see a film in a few minutes. Then you'll know how the males use those big mandibles."I showed the film,. He wasn’t as thin as me when we met, but he had a little muscle definition. I’m much the same as I was in my last story, though that was nearly two years ago now. Blue eyes, brown hair (though I keep it a bit shorter now), and still thin as a twig. I had always heard my parents talk about meeting someone who they never had to try to get along with, who they immediately just clicked and became friends with. Inside of a week, that was where Nial and I stood. We had a few similar interests, just. Sally could be patient but when she really wanted to know something, nothing would stop her. "All Mind Magi have to bind to normal people. This bond is completely mystical and is what powers the Mind Magi's abilities. To a degree it also alters the ability in function." So, you're bound to someone?"I nodded. "Anyone I'm bound to will have a duplicate of my mark."Sally looked at my chest. "I was wondering what I was seeing..."I ran my hand through my mark. "It appeared only days after my first.