”“I’m very flattered dear, but I think we had our time together. I’m too old now for that sort of thing.”I’d heard that before; I’d lear...ed not to argue about it, but to just wait for her mood to change.We got back to find a patient waiting; a local fisherman with a bad gash in his leg sat stoically outside.I helped him in and gave him an injection of anesthetic at Ava’s instruction.“My arthritis is acting up today.” She said to me, “You can do the stitching.”She’s been instructing me, and I’d. " John said as he pulled out the gunhe had taken from the robber. "Did you know the robber had two guns onhim? The police took the second one that he had tucked away. I kept theone I knocked out of his hand. Now change me back or else." You're not the kind of person..." The wizard began as John's shaky handcaused him to pull the trigger by accident. The bullet flew threw the airand bounced like magic off the air in front of the wizard. "That does it! Itried to be nice about what happened to. The difference was that she could talk. I can’t exactly say I could. I could moan and get out a few words of thanks, but my hand was doing most of my talking. Normally I am very fastidious with my language, but I think a bunch of “Oh God”’s came out and maybe a few encouragements of the four-letter variety found their way into the phone. Much of what happened that night has been obscured by what would happen a few days later, when we wanted to make it a mutual experience. I do remember the. It was low key and I was maintaining my temper and demeanor. She was beginning to understand why I was so... so frustrated. But she was not going to make it easy. She opened her car door and got out. Now I was gonna have to chase her. Part of her normal procedure. She wants to know I will come after her. She walked to the front of the car. I got out and followed. We talked some more and I noticed she was looking across the field. I looked over and saw there were two 20 something year old guys.