"Come on," said April, softly grabbing his wrist and giving a tug as Lisafinished her hair. "You've got to see how amazing you look."As much as he tri...d to see through his latest ensemble, it was almosthard to fathom that Walter was still somewhere in there. He had beendressed in Kelly's clothes more times this weekend than he could haveimagined, but never did he stare at his reflection before and see somegirl that looked like she should grace a junior prom magazine.He was now in a breathtaking. But behindhim, on a much higher seat in the middle of the sledge sat a verydifferent person - a great lady, taller than any woman that Edmund hadever seen.She also was covered in white fur up to her throat and held a longstraight golden wand in her right hand and wore a golden crown on herhead. Her face was white - not merely pale, but white like snow orpaper or icing-sugar, except for her very red mouth. It was a beautifulface in other respects, but proud and cold and stern.The sledge was a. The next week flew by. Wally got assigned Casper Buckridge as his public defender. I found this out when I found a post-it note stuck to my monitor that said "The Ghost wants to talk to you." Casper was referred to routinely as "The Ghost" for obvious reasons. I called him and he wanted to interview me."You've got my statement and the report already," I said."That's what everybody tells you too, but you always insist on talking to them again," he said. "When can we do it?" Pick a time," I said,. .. sticks that fly with the quickness of thought bringing death from the sky. It was too much for us to understand, this flying death that leaped, invisible, upon us from a great distance. What else could we do? We went to find Broc." Did you find him?" Yes. But when we told him of Threm's death by the flying spear, and of sky stick death to the others, he called us cowards. Then in his anger he killed three of us with his bare hands. I only barely managed to slip away while he was busy beating.