How long will that last?" I can go for one week or two weeks. I haven't talked to Dad or Mom about it yet. Charlene thinks I should go for two."Mom sa...d, "If you're still going to run the territory with the students, we have to make a really good plan to minimize disruptions from turnover."Dad and Charlene came down together. I guess she needed him for moral support. Ha! When they joined us, Amanda said, "I'm sure we haven't heard all the good stories about your trip."He talked for a few. He'd felt it once or twice in his own inhumanely long life. But know that Lineal had been forced to endure the bite until he'd mercifully died was almost more than he could bear.How must it have felt for Mirage? She'd been forced to stand there, to watch her husband's proud face as he'd been beaten to death. She'd been made to listen to his screams when he'd finally broken and she had pleaded and screamed herself, begging to prove her innocence or that the gods would punish her, not her. . I wasn't sure every next day would be enough but onthe other hand he said there was homework to do and football workoutsthree times a week and he promised to train at home, too. So maybe hereally wasn't so hopeless. By the end of the next lesson Willy's stepswere almost perfect and it was a time for him to dance with a partner."What partner? I have no one," he stated."But you need one!" It seemed completely obvious to me, I had gotten soinvolved in watching his steps that I had forgotten that.
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