” “Ow,” barked Eddy. He covered his biceps with his left hand. “You saw us?” his voice squeaked. “Look, we just g...t caught up in the moment, that’s all.” “Oh… caught up in the moment…well I can understand that. But I can’t understand,” she gave her best left cross to his left biceps, “why you’re having unpro- tected sex.” “Damn Cher, I’m healthy, that was my first…..I mean I know I. I wish I could be there to see her face."I smiled. "Me too Mandy. I'm so excited. And nervous. I wonder whereshe picked for a restaurant? I hope she'll think it was a good enoughplace to be asked to get married."Mandy laughed. "Ha! Knowing Grace, if you told her to pick a nicerestaurant for you to take her to dinner, she probably picked the mostexpensive restaurant in Washington." You're probably right!" I agreed, laughing. We each knew Grace well. Theonly difference was that, no. And that thought only made me sick.I had to find a way to remove his spell over her. If she clung to him due to the spell, then she would quickly change sides and berate him for his use of witchcraft. However, if she wasn’t being influenced by the spell, then nothing would change and I would be stuck worried about her even after he left. No matter the outcome, I had to find a counter-spell.My brambling and stewing over what happened kept me too distracted to notice the effects of the last few. Koch was put immediately upon the defensive now and he soon needed to throw himself to the marshy ground to avoid a devastating chomp of the creature’s jaws that came near to taking his entire head off. The beast had two excellent choices now, to either chew up my bodyguard’s entrails rather easily and quickly, or else to leap upon its only other two vertical opponents, Flerrie or myself. I read somewhere that lizards tend to have poor visual senses and rely upon scent and movement to locate.