It was too easy to blame the 'pervert'... Lois moved out; eventually, her dad came home, once she was gone... College was four states away. Lois kept ...er head down and worked hard outside school to pay for her tuition and living expenses -- there would be nothing from her father. She went to a psychiatrist and a psychologist and a sex therapist -- and finally to a couple of surgeons who specialized in making adjustments for certain mistakes by Mother Nature... Her psychiatrist hadn't cleared. After several long minutes, they finally parted, and Melody began to calm down. They sat on the bed and turned toward Selena, still seated at the desk across the room from them.“Melody,” she said, “Every fiber of my being wishes that I could have saved your mother. She deserved more than her life afforded her. However, you know, as well as I do, the rules and limits of our magic.”Nodding, Melody said, “She was not bound to you, thus you could only save her life if it was part of her one. Yes, Father doted on me as the son he never had, but in the end, I would still be married-off to some lordling with soft hands. My future was not my own, and that’s why I was taking this journey. This was one last breath of freedom before the shackles of marriage confined me, one chance to find the passion of my youth before it was sold for political favors. Oh, I could prick my finger on my wedding night and leave the evidence of my maidenhood on the bedsheets, but it would have been long. Two men entered from the doorway of the kitchen, weapons drawn, and the taller man spoke. "Please. Do not make noise. We, ah, just rented this cabin for a week -" The bank robbers!" my wife exclaimed."Very good," the man said, his attention now drawn to my wife. "The wife is just as well-informed as she is beautiful, is she not, Mr.Michael?" You know my name?" I was beyond surprise, but his knowledge of my name was definitely intimidating."Of course," replied the gentleman in black, "As I.