”“Good. Now follow the pointer as I move it around. I’m going to move it posteriorly. That is in the direction of the back of the brain, toward ...he occipital lobe. Look carefully because I’m going to split the pointer into three and show you some very small nerves.” Jake leaned over Nina and touched Kara. “There. Is there anyone who doesn’t see the three nerves I’ve illuminated?”Again no one spoke.“Now I’m going to send a trickle of energy into each of those three nerves at the same time.”Jake. "I wish we had enough people to defend it." Why?" Marsh asked. He was a fine warrior, but not in the class of his father and lacked a strategic mind. Marsh would need a military advisor if he lived to inherit the Bandit title from his father."Your father didn't build his wall in the middle of nowhere like I thought," Els said. "A boy dwarf learns to use a particular tactic against girl dwarves. He'll pick up a big rock, one of his mother's cooking pots, or a buckler to block the punches, kicks,. But I do want totalk to you again soon."When we exited the office Gabe was still sitting in the lobby readingsome kind of magazine. He got up and pulled his brow up in an unspokenquestion. Gavin asked, "Gabe, do you want to do it quickly, or would you mindrescheduling? I'm running out of time here."He answered casually, "Oh there's not much to tell, really. I just helpedout a demolition crew practicing my power. The site was quite secure, soI don't think that it is a problem, unless you see. Then, when school started back up, he got in a fight the first day. While he was suspended he took the horse and went for a ride all the way to town, and got caught shoplifting.Mom blamed it on Uncle Bob. And she blamed it on nudism. They stopped touching each other, or cuddling. There was no other bedroom for them to sleep in, but none of the sounds we were so used to hearing came from there any more. They even left the bedroom door open at night.It didn’t make any sense, and everybody knew.