...forever. "Calm yourself General!", Rachel laughed, "Our plans can continue asbefore. You've already reaped the benefits of my research of the tome,...ow you must allow me to do the same.". "But you're building an army of these.....freaks.", Dixon said indisgust. Swapper's eyes glowed for a moment but Rachel stopped any action hemight have been planning with a gesture. "Careful General, unless you wish to live in Swapper's presenthost....yes I know you fear that more than anything. My children. “Lauren?” I ask.“Jason? I thought you were Sophie, I’m sorry. I really have to pee though.”“It’s ok, no big deal. Is everything ok?”“Not really, I’ve had a rough week. I got fired from work because a coworker was stealing from the register and blamed it on me, got a flat tire yesterday, and today Aaron sent me a text saying it was over, and he dropped off all of my stuff back at my apartment. I’m kind of a wreck. I was hoping Sophie would be here to talk.”“I’m so sorry. Sophie had to go back to. Ella had tapped out in panic a few times but, for better or worse, was thoroughly ignored. Thankfully, no one noticed her passing out, not even the guy ‘shaking her hand’ unless he felt her slackening throat and didn’t care. Anyway, almost dying was better than being labeled as an ungrateful bitch on her first day.Half the students remained after the bell to finish a nut or swallow said nut. Ella’s throat had been exhaustively defiled for an hour straight, so feeling the throbs of the shaft. She remembered that a male cousin had suffered a fatal mishap in circumstances similar to hers. At least one of her quarry might be familiar with that story, and with the trick that had doomed her careless relative. And if not, well, she’d come down the chimney herself and bag them all anyway.So she purchased from Acme its patented Lavender Faybomb—guaranteed to produce an incapacitating smoke on contact with water. And what happened next you already know, faithful reader.By the following.