" Oh well ... Haldor the Hunk," she chuckled. "That will be a nice change for you, won't it?" Oh yeah," I agreed wholeheartedly. "I'm not there yet, b...t maybe in the next year I'll get a little bigger." I'm sure you will. And this girl is correct. You are going to become a 'hunk.'"I looked up in surprise. My own mother was telling me that?"Do you have a picture of her?" she asked."Uhhm, no, not yet," I lied.She looked at me suspiciously but didn't pursue it."Well, I think you get together with. "Are you sure?" She nodded again. "You volunteered to go with your sister. You will go through the same events and both of you must be satisfactory to me or both flunk. One last time to back out and you can go home while Maddie stays. What will it be?" Madison looked at her pleadingly.Her voice quavered. "I will stay and go through everything with Madison."I nodded grimly and said, "Okay, then, strip." She looked more troubled but pulled her clothes off and put them beside Madison's on the car.. Mom rarely took us to see him and he didn’t make it his business to see us. I knew he could help me. “Grandpa, good to see you.” I said.“What do you want, scamp?” he eyed me cautiously. “You wouldn’t come over for nothing, so talk.”I spilled. I told him everything. The abuse, the name calling, how my friends wouldn’t stand up for me. How my sister got knocked up by my worst enemy. “Son, you got a problem.” I thought to myself “obviously Gramps. Thanks.”He arose and motioned for me to follow him. "It's supposed to disorient and weaken several species of demons,including the Sathir'na, but the recorded historical instances of its usein combat are few and the details scanty. I admit I had my doubts aboutit." Hey," Willow piped up excitedly, "maybe we could try these obscure oldtime spells more often, you know, instead of just going, 'Nah, it won'twork anyway and even if it does, it's too dangerous.' There's plenty ofreally interesting stuff in the tomes you keep in the top shelf of.