She began to read newspaper stories about how it seemed the Defender was still around protecting the city. She dismissed this with two different expla...ations. First, he wasn't the only hero active in Portent City, and the witnesses had mistaken another hero for him. Second, some other hero, new or old, had adopted the Defender identity as his own. Either way, the city was safe, and she could go on with her new life.And so she did. She moved in with Jenny and Karen. Within the first week, she. Who was continuing - I didn't know what it was at the time.But her frame was lighter than mine... had been. Her bodywas smooth. The implications were... weird.But soon hair started to fall into my eyes. Black hair -previously brown. And the fingers that brushed it from myeyes were longer than they... had been. And it slowly cameto me what was happening.It was weird. It wasn't something I'd ever... thoughtabout. Never had those sorts of fantasies. Life was alright- I was getting by, had some. “I had heard about that from my mother. So how did they force her this time? Isn’t she supposed to be a Mage?”Trae handed him the band, “It was spelled. Dewar was also wearing a two gem medallion that had been coerced. I’ve not seen that style of medallion on other Mages or Novices here. I was able to free the entity. Unfortunately, I think it did something to him before it left.”Shield Peters looked over at the man on the ground that one of his colleagues was attending. “We may have to put a. Goodnight all.’ She grabbed my hand and dragged me toward the door to the sound of laughter. I was getting pretty tired after the night before. Sally drove my BMW and said it was a hot rod in disguise. We stopped and got two ice cream cones and I had to wipe Sally’s face and chin as she drove. I think she got the chocolate ice cream on her face on purpose. I licked some of it off, and then she got real messy. She got it all over her lips. I licked it off. She said she thought some of it had run.