What made me even more unsettled was the way my body reacted to the kiss. I knew I should stop, but I couldn’t. Instead, I pressed my tongue again...t his lips.Kyle’s mouth opened as he accepted my tongue. Suddenly, things went into slow motion. The music faded, replaced with the sound of my pounding heart and the rushing of blood in my ears. I stabbed my tongue into my brother’s mouth, he did the same to me. Our arms tightened around one another, and we both began squirming. Kyle moved. Owen stopped dead on the stair, unable to move or speak. He could only stare at the sight before him, both unable to take his eyes off the sight, and unable to keep looking at the same time. In the elevator was the man he feared most. Around him were a group of his followers, and closest minions. The following group was dressed in vibrant, loud colors: yellows, oranges, purples, bright greens. All of them looked more like circus performing clowns. They all had distant, blank looking faces, but. ‘Please stop shouting and tell me what’s going on.’ ‘Did you touch him? Did you fucking touch my son?’ he shouted the questions. She could not understand him, her panic caused by his shouting was making her confused. ‘What do you mean, ‘did I touch him’?’ ‘River told me that you have touched him inappropriately on several occasions when you two were alone in my house,’ he said, his words almost like a punch to her face. It shook her to the core yet she could hardly believe the accusation. ‘No,. It isn’t long before her younger brother comes in to see what’s going on. The tears return with a vengeance, more hugs are shared, and everyone is so relieved.The joyous mother bids her daughter sit down while she cooks breakfast. It isn’t much, but it is as good as ambrosia to Ki Jung, if only for the fact that it’s her mother’s cooking. As they eat, Ki Jung tells them of her journey, the badger, the fight with the local bully, all of it. She even tells them about the spell she learned and the.