I had just finished cooking dinner, and was setting up the table to eat. My mom and dad weren't home, but that was normal for them to not arrive till ...round 9pm anyway. I was walking down the hallway to Eli's room, to tell him to come eat, I knocked on his door, and to my surprise it swung open. He wasn't in his room but something I saw lying on his bed caught my attention and pulled me in. Lying on his bed was an old shoebox that looked as if it had been stepped on quite a few times. On the. There were well over a thousand candles in there.) Tao seized the last and we quietly left the room, shutting the large door behind us. Ten minutes later, we were climbing up the stairs in the Girls Dorm and getting back to our room. I sat the candles on her shelf, Tao put hers next to mine. She turned to me as she stripped off her hoodie. So, youre saying youre gonna cast a circle for both of us? No, I corrected, were gonna cast a circle for the both of us. But, I dunno how to do that shit,. Vice President, we can do that without raising a sweat, but where will we find the money to pay for it all?”He knew as well as I did that the money would have to come from the continued sale of arms to non-impoverished nations. With Japan feeling the brunt of our displeasure, the countries that are worried about China’s imperialistic intentions would pay dearly for ships and submarines, bombers and fighters.“We will sell them all the tools they need to protect themselves from the threat of a. A series of fireballs had risen from no fewer than fourteen cities in East Asia, throwing the governments and economies of the nations into utter chaos. This catastrophe threatened to spread to the West, of course, and already the Department of Homeland Security had issued an official travel warning bulletin, apparently ordered after Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong were incinerated. Panic had grown in several cities in other nations that had not yet been hit, particularly as the.