Bobbi walked over and handed Tag a stick of hard candy also as she smiled big at him.“I’ve never had candy before so don’t go thinking this mean... we gonna be making eyes at one another, just cause I’m taking it,” Tag said as he grinned at Bobbi.Mrs. Yancey walked out of the store, looking at Tom as if she were seeing him for the first time.“Tom, I just heard the most amazing thing about you in there, is it true, are you really Sky the Eagle Boy?”“Well Ma’am, I reckon I’ve been found out, I sure. They all left more than satisfied and much lighter in the pocketbook. She was worth every penny, and even those who balked at the price initially needed no more than to see her in real life to agree to just about whatever price they asked. It was like taking candy from a baby once the blonde knockout got them in her clutches.Carl sat back and counted the wads of bills sitting on the passenger seat of his Crown Vic. The girls were worth a fortune, and with the prospect that Stacy couldn't stop. I focused and attempted to pull a small amount of mana through the channels in my arm to my hand. With the mana flowing through my hand, I tried to force it into a ball above my palm as I had before. It felt like I was trying to push a golf ball through a garden hose. The more I tried to force it, the greater the resistance. After several failed attempts, I opened my eyes. “Why is it harder to form the orb the more I force it,” I asked.Petra was the one to answer, “Because there is no need to. ”Bain didn’t believe the man. No man went willingly to the rope. They travelled for another hour, up the incline as the canyon fell behind them, and finally out onto the flat plain again. He kept the group moving until they had circled well south of the canyon, before he stopped the group and tended to the wounds of the two scalped men. John Henry removed the leather straps from one man’s hands, allowed him to eat some jerky and drink some water then rebound the man, and moved to the next.