As each match began with Sean's deliberate but purposeful charge, his friends started greeting it with a yell. Quickly, his teammates joined in. At le...st a couple of his early wins were due to complete intimidation of his opponent just from his initial charge and the accompanying noise.Phyllis and Nancy had indeed become involved, helping several of the boys whose families were amenable. Only two of the others went at it with anywhere near Sean's determination and discipline, though.The sixth. He took the cream and headed towards the trees. The Bishop came over to him.“I was wondering if you had any more of that cream. Myself and my companion seem to be suffering in the same manner.”“I have, but what would you be willing to trade for it?”The Bishop looked at him and nodded. “How much?” he asked, reaching for his purse.“I don’t want your money. I have enough of my own. Letters and numbers. I’m sure you and your companion can read and write? I want you to teach me and the boy. I can. I now have a huge ball strapped to my stomach, if i was to trip now I'd bounce on my tummy. Odd but I suppose effective. She has me lower my arms and by pulling on a zipper releases my arms from being connected, but now its like I am wearing two long fingerless gloves. I can move my arms but my hands are virtually useless. I am top heavy, I think to myself, that this what it must feel like to be pregenant. I feel very very vulnurable, off balance, and a little scared... and I relize i kinda. It was a miracle I hadn’t yet wandered off the edge of one of the numerous cliffs I encountered and met my fate upon the rocks below.“Oh, Isshu,” I lamented awaking from troubled slumbers more than once. “I am lost.”Unlike my fevered dreams while I had been suspended in darkness, I had not grown extra appendages, or should I say, limbs. The wings that had erupted from my shoulder blades, however, were not a product of my imagination. Nor was the slow adaptation of my eyesight to see, if not.