.you need to learn a lesson." Please..." Lanni started crying.I watched the wizard take a wooden staff from inside of his robe. The wizard pointed his...staff at Lanni. I couldn't watch so I turned away. I heard a bolt of lightning and Lanni's high-pitched scream nearly broke my eardrums and I covered my ears. That scream was loud enough to break a window. I figured the bolt hit her. After 10 seconds, the scream faded away and so did the lightning. When I turned back around all that was left of. Mr. Oldham didn't hesitate to say that he would find a summer job for Shirley."Don't you want to interview her?" I asked, and watched her shake her head nervously. He chuckled, said he had already interviewed her when we drove Wanda home, but he would like to speak to her to make it formal.I put the receiver in her hand and rubbed her back as she talked to Mr. Oldham."Yes, Sir... Yes, Sir I can do that... Yes, Sir... I've done... how much? Thank you, Sir, please tell Suzanne hi for me, here he. Then one day when he tried to remove an abused child from her home, the child's father murdered him. He left his young wife emotionally devastated and with two young children to raise by herself. With no time to mourn properly, she scrambled to find work to keep her distressed family together. Drifting from one bad-paying job to another, she finally let a broker talk her into selling homes part time to augment her income. Now she owned her own real estate company.Her son, the oldest and still. We had already made arrangements so it didn't take too long to transfer our equipment to his vehicle and start off. The trip would start nearly thirty miles up river but we made it to the put in point before noon and quickly unloaded everything. We ate lunch before we started off but in forty minutes we had all our gear stashed in the watertight compartments of the two boats and pushed out into the water.This trip was not white water or anything like that. Some Class 2 stretches but mostly just.