Macy, “something noticeable even to a blind person.”“Something,” echoed Ms. Baldwin, “and we think we want to be a part of it – if we can....��“Changed, how?” asked the bemused Woody. “And part of what?”“So first,” started Ms. Baldwin, “Away from school, we want to be called Margie and Anne. Changed – well - you’re more mature, more self-assured than you were at the start of the school year. And girls. There’s always at least three around you, but excepting your sister Star, it’s seldom the same. Only the Seers really drew upon the Fount with any regularity-- mankind was never meant to handle that kind of power.But this boy? An initiation was a necessary ritual. It made the Ether aware of a practitioner's presence. Only an initiate could direct the Ether through the structured pattern of a spell. It simply wasn't possible to perform as this young man confidently walking beside him had claimed to. To draw the Ether directly, without spells, simply by focusing his awareness? Barrachus. "She ate another fry and said, "How much will I have to know you before you'll agree to kiss me?"He could see the sparkle in her eyes and said, "Oh ... a year should about do it." There's no way I'm waiting that long." Six months?"She shook her head."Three months?" Not a chance." A month and a half?"She giggled and said, "How about you tell me ten things about you and then you kiss me?" Five now and five later?" How much later?" A week?" Why put off a week, what you can do today?"Laughing, he. We are fortunate enough to have a comfortable, middle-class life. We certainly aren't wealthy, only one car, no swimming pool and an average three bedroom home on a standard suburban block. We are however fortunate enough to have a reliable car, we will have finished paying off our own home in the next couple of years and my husband has a steady job and income. We aren't poor but we have been close enough from time to time to recognize it and appreciate what we have. We have two teenage kids.