“Well girl, show me what you can do!”“Bring it on!”Gorge rushes ahead raising his fist as he jabs at Bonny aiming for her stomach. But the win... blocks the force of his blow and he’s pushed back by a powerful gust of wind. Holding out her hand Bonny gathers the wind into her palm as it forms into a large black scythe with a long tail on the end.“Bonny!” Elinore yells out.Bonny focus’s on Gorge and grips the scythe tighter. “Hold on, I will take this asshole out then we’re going into the. Uh... rose petals just need a little recovery time." I think this metaphor has gone as far as we can take it," Arlie said, smiling."What's a metaphor?" Toby asked."They're talking about her and Dan doing it," Christy explained."Christy!"Christy pretended to be addressing her little brother: "Grown-ups think they can say anything they want to in code, and we children won't get it." Well, I don't get it," Toby said."There's nothing for you to get, Son," Arlie said. "Your sister is just getting. Seth had not noticed the disappearing boot prints Robert had made in going to work only a half hour before, but now he understood why his brother had not bothered to awaken him. He had moved back in with Robert after his mother decided that the young man was well enough to put up with Seth's snoring."Won't have any school today," Seth said to himself as the fat flakes blew sideways for a while and then seemed to reverse direction making the store disappear behind a gauzy curtain. The leafless. Your throat is dry, and your heart threatens to burst out of your chest. The Trickster watches you in silence, his hand always toying with the object of your desires.Suddenly, he tosses the Coin through the air. Time slows down, and you feel your heart thumping in your throat as it flies towards you. You reach out and snatch it out of the air. As you clutch the coin in your fist, you feel the metal grow searing hot, and let out a shriek in agony. You cannot let go but your flesh was sizzling.