She wanted us to meet him. She went onahead to get him, leaving Linda and I some time to talk.I said, "You tried to hard to help me, didn't you? It ...illed you, andthat's why you wound up here right after me." I was crying as I saidit. I knew that here, crying, and showing emotion, was cool for men.She was crying too.She said, "I realized that it wasn't just Tanya that I wanted to save,it was this other, strange person inside of her, that had just saved theworld. We made such a total. I concentrate on the sounds around me again. I hear Mark breathing, his voice catching as he exhales. I hear the leaves rustling louder now and I think I hear footsteps on the sidewalk outside the gate but they stop and I realize what I hear is my own gasp as Mark pushes even deeper into me. He stops then and leans his weight over me, reaching around to take my wrist. He pulls my hand up under our bodies and guides my fingers to the warm skin that he has invaded. ‘Touch yourself,’ he breathes. And one person asked Holly why she had two wands.“Well, like, I had one of them first ya know, and it was like this totally tubular fireball wand. I like, fried some read bad jodies my first time and kept it cause it’s awesome! Then, like, I found this second wand. And like, I had some bodacious trolls heading at me so I used it, and I fireballed them too! So now I just keep, ya know, like both of them ready. But one of them is like so broken, it don’t always make fireballs. But I can never. Life hadn’t been very easy the past few months. In the last half a year her parents got divorced, her father moved out, her mother became distant, and poor Sara felt nearly abandoned by her family. After high school, her friends all went away to expensive colleges in northern Maine, or Canada, or Florida, and she was unfortunately left behind to attend Community College in the same city she grew up in. With nobody to talk to, she had become quiet and withdrawn. She quickly folded up her.