I just know it. And I do hope you mightprove it and shed more light on the matter for me.''What, my dear, makes you so very certain you were once the ...ueen of theNile?' asked a staid-faced Whitby.'I just FEEL Egyptian. Besides, one of my grandmothers was an exoticdancer from Cairo. And for another thing yet, I simply abhor snakes!'gushed O'Flaherty. 'Professor Whitby, you've just got to send me backthere. Refresh my memory, and both prove I am who I say I once was andthat your theories are true. Not a dry eye in the courtroom after that. The gag order was still in place, Takeuchi didn’t have the authority to overrule it, but now all the other judges seemed to be favoring the two brats. Too bad that bedtime crying crap didn’t technically violate the gag order, because these little snots needed to be taken down a peg or two.He flexed his right hand, hoping to work out the numbness. Could it be carpel tunnel syndrome? He also slowed down a bit; this fast walking was making him out of. By comparison, Aimee had grown only 8 inches in the same time period.On the other hand, at the start of the seventh grade, she had grown in other areas. I mean she had gone from 2nd grade tomgirl to 7th grade tomgirl with nice tits. And I had never again, that is up until then, influenced my penile growth. And I didn't need to as I was as big or bigger than most of they guys my age. But I was halfway through the 7th grade that I made my next big discovery about my superpowers, one that would. Magic, it seemed, was the process of gathering and internalizing the magical 'auras' that ebbed and flowed through the world, organizing them, and applying them to meet a goal. The creation of a spell 'used up' the aura, which John thought of as 'mana' in the sense that Larry Niven had used it in his Warlock stories. The parallel held to some extent; it was possible to 'use up' all of the mana in an area, preventing new spells from being created, but unlike Niven's creation, in Matthew's world.