She was wearing a t shirt and denim shorts. Merril had prepared some cold food for us all for when we arrived at our resort, and she was balancing pla...es of clingfilm covered plates, and plastic tubs full of delicious sandwiches on her knees.It was Merril who suggested that she should travel in the back seat so that she could have space for all the food. And so it was that Jackie sat next to me up front for our journey.We set off southbound for a trip that would probably take the best part of. We have to get people out of the passive mode."Well after midnight, Molly woke up in the strange room. Curt had still been chatting away on his laptop when she went to bed a few hours earlier, and she wondered if he had finally given up. His mother was in the other bed in the large double room with her. Quietly, she got up and crossed over to Curt's room, where the door was open and the light still on.She tapped lightly on the open door and walked in when he turned and smiled at her. She felt a. "Whoever or whatever it was, he managed to get away." Trunk said.I looked around for my dagger and my arrow, but couldn't find either. I did see a small spot of blood on the ground just past where I had met Trunk."Gotten away perhaps, but not unscathed." I said. Sid and trunk both examined the blood, but finally Sid turned and headed back to the inn and we all followed.Following Sid my brain finally had time to process the change it had seen when the attack came.Sid's staff was now a wizard's. "Chloe Carpenter," Emily responded. "It sounded somewhat starish, Iguess."Her dad nodded, then we slipped into an uncomfortable silence for amoment or two."Can we hear the songs?" Susan, Emily's mother, finally asked me. "Emilyalways said that you had a good voice, but I've never really heard yousing before. Megan, you sounded really good at church, but it isn'tquite the same as hearing you sing alone." Yeah!" I said excitedly. I'd wanted to share my singing with them sincethey had brought it.