They were driving toCincinnati to pick up his grandmother and they would expect to find himin his room when they returned that evening.One of the plus...es of being grounded was that Jerry would have thehouse to himself for a few hours. He was fixated with learningsomething about his birth parents, so he resolved to search forinformation to back up his theory. After he got home from school, hestarted with the box in the basement where he had discovered the letterand video cassette. After a futile. Now that everyone was in their gym clothes, they would sidle past and say something to him. Most of the comments were to the effect that it had been nice knowing him.Sid walked over and said, “How many push-ups do you think Coach Slaughter can do?”“I don’t know. I guess he can do a couple hundred of them,” Sean answered pulling on his gym shorts.Shaking his head, Sid said, “Last year you managed to do five.”“That was last year,” Sean said with a shrug.Jerry came running over and said, “Half of. He wants me to suck him off. He tells me he'll beat me if I don't 'do it nice'. I believe him. He's big, muscular, tall. No fat anywhere on him. No sign of any humanity either. He tells me to unzip his fly. I'm too slow. He slaps my face. He's wearing a ring; gold, a jaguar head with rubies for eyes. The ring catches the side of my mouth. There's a sharp pain. It's bleeding. He grabs my hair. I'm scared that he'll break my neck. I'm on my knees. I fumble with the zip of his fly. I can see the. " "So you have shown me all that you can do?" I asked. Nodding Mordaf replied, "I'm afraid so. Though I have to tell you your power is far beyond almost all mages. As you feared though it still isn't as high as the council leader, even though it would take all he has to defeat you that's for sure." I nodded as I thought about the situation for a few moments. "If I am as strong as you say," here I looked at Pops. "Shouldn't I be able to get to him Pops? I know you said he has a lot of power.