I picked up the little piece of parchment. Literally. It was real parchment.Sorority games; I shook my head.It was rolled up and tied with a red bow. ...t had even been sealed with wax and imprinted with the compass and scales of the Phi Lambda's, as if someone might want to steal their secrets. The writing was hand lettered and even beautiful, I thought in abstract. I wasn't quite ready to give them too much credit. What was I resisting, I wondered? A sorority was a good thing, right? Meet other. “She ran into me the night I arrived on campus.”Radcliff narrowed her eyes. “She ran into you?” She made it a question, as if she didn’t believe me. Then she glanced at the open folders but didn’t do anything with them. It was a gesture to help her recall the details she had probably memorized for this interview. “There’s no report...”I shook my head. “You misunderstand. She didn’t hit me with a car, but she did run into me, quite literally, on foot.”“Where were you when this happened?” she. He lowered his face and dropped all of it in his unsuspecting daughter's open mouth.Lisa was taken by surprise and had to gulp quickly to avoid gagging.She punched him few times.Her father laughed and continued to finish brushing his teeth, his daughter once again put her arms around his waist. He felt his daughter tugging him as he started to bend down to spit the frothy paste out. Philip lowered his mouth over his daughter's open mouth everything in her mouth as she gulped it down. Without. Interested."The next thing I knew, the almost skeletal arm of Alan had me by thethroat, and was dragging me closer to the gem.The gem said, "Say yes, now. Or I will take you anyway, and use you tomake those you care for suffer."And in the gem, I saw a vision of myself doing just that - torturing myteammates with the gem's power while my mind and soul watchedhelplessly.I was about to break, to take the gem, when suddenly, the hand on mythroat fell to the floor, severed at the wrist."Not today,.