"She might fuck him to death."I chuckled, "Like you said, there are worse ways to go."We settled in for our evening meal. Miranda came in twenty minut...s later. He will learn, eventually. I hope we have enough time for me to complete his lessons." I shrugged. Mason came in later. Only a couple of bruises showed. We spent a quiet night.We arrived at the High Priest's palacein the City of the Angels the next day. He was not happy to see me. He was even less happy to see the talisman after I showed. The twin blows had him on his knees, dazed. Through the haze of pain and bitter anger he heard words barked. ‘If you move now I’ll shoot you dead, you fool!’ He stayed there, until the thumping sickening pain in his groin began to recede somewhat. He felt a thin trickle of blood from his chin. As his consciousness improved he looked up slowly, saw the pistol pointed at him once again, and groaned inwardly. He had grasped at a straw and drowned! He saw the eyes too, caught a hint of blue as they. But I wanted to get the newspaper, emails and my financial portfolio out of the way first.As I sat in comfort at the dinette with my laptop, outside, the wind was still gusting with temperature in the teens and wind-chill around zero.Ordinarily I’d have headed upstairs to the desk top computer to jerk-off. Lately though, I’d gotten lazy and instead had been electing to remain at the dinette table to surf on the laptop. It seemed like a relaxing way to spend a wintry morning. I whipped my limp. If you aren't, the abilities start to fade by the time you hit twenty and are gone a few years later. A wilted flower. A good many such as yourself then find an enemy and fight a final battle, unable to bear life without her gifts."Kennedy didn't know what to say; which seemed to be happening a lot. "Was the bear real?"Steffie laughed. "Bear? Him?" she gestured and Kennedy could see the bear again, standing just on the edge of the forest."It's called a glamour, a spell to make something look.