Corec drew his sword and tossed two mage lights to float around the beast’s head, hoping to distract it again. It worked—the drake tried to attack...the lights, its claws passing through them harmlessly.Corec cast the spell that let him move faster in his armor, figuring he would need the extra speed to dodge. He was finally able to get a good look at the drake. It had dark brown scales and stood ten feet tall on its hind legs—nearly full grown, and much larger than he’d expected. Its shrieking. Quite a small hole. He’d been shot at an angle. From what she remembered from her biology lessons that’d be what had saved him from having a lung punctured? Hopefully saved him.Somehow it had missed his ribs, or just nudged them. It wasn’t bleeding much at the front. She wiped it, and only a trickle kept coming. Anyway what could she do? She needed a bandage long enough to go right round his chest, nice and tight.She took a tee and tried to tear it in half up the back. She was too weak, it. “Should I say ‘congratulations’ or ‘condolences’?” Mom teased.“That remains to be seen!”“I’ll let Father Herman know, and your dad and I will come to McKinley in the morning. I’ll call your grandfather as well. Is the tonsuring at the usual time?”“Yes, between Matins and Liturgy.”“We’ll be there. I’ll see if I can get Liz to come along.”“Let me talk to her, if she’s there.”“She and Mindy went out today. If she refuses, I’ll call your room later, OK?”“Sure. Thanks. I’m going to call Tasha. They are reversible changes, but they would be there as long as the spell was in force. I think that the only effect that Lady Armbrewster might object to is that she could not bear a child while the spell was in effect. All of her bodily functions would appear to be normal, but she would be sterile while the spell was in effect. The spell is so powerful that she would probably become pregnant the next time she engaged in sex after the spell was removed."Please forgive me, Lady Armbrewster, for.