. and then the scouts stopped returning. Your best scrying has been unclear and impossible to read accurately. What was clear was that something was c...ming and that your forces needed to be ready. It had been long years since a war between the races.. it now seemed inevitable.The first sign that forces beyond your ken were in motion were those metal beetles which appeared in the sky. Goddess knows what their purpose was but they began to appear in numbers, perhaps a dozen flitting through the. My father-in-law and I go ahead to look for the cars while they say goodbye to the hosts.After going to the nearby parking lot my father-in-law and I waited for about 15 minutes at the front door, until they finally came out laughing and making a fuss. I had to help Maru who was no longer coordinating and Malu climbed in the back.On the way up it was Malu who made me nervous. She had her gaze fixed on me in the rearview mirror. I could not stare at her, so I looked at her for the moment when. You can open it here or I can play it to everyone downstairs. I thought you would prefer to open it here instead."I passed the gift-wrapped parcel across to Maxine. As she took it from me I lunged forward and pushed her hard backwards on to the bed.She started to scream as I followed through by reaching down & pulling her legs up vertically so she fell back onto the bed. Maxine was still gripping the parcel as she was enveloped in her wedding dress as it drifted down over her face. This stopped. Alas, things did not pan out exactly as planned.The school where I work is non-traditional in many ways. I have only two classes, one that meets on Monday and Wednesday mornings, and the other that meets on Tuesday and Thursday mornings; both last from 7:00 to 8:30 a.m., and then students have a thirty-minute break before their next class. There is an open campus, so students can come and go as they please.Although each teacher is responsible for his or her own classes, the school has several.