‘That’s good if you did. You should smile more.’ ‘Sol…well, I couldn’t help it when he tried to give me those puppy dog eyes.’ Emma gave...Millie a side glance and did smile. Millie scoffed. ‘Puppy? Sol’s an old basset hound.’ She fiddled with the net that held her salt-and-pepper hair back. ‘Now, how about the young man there? Luke?’ ‘What about him?’ Emma kept her expression neutral. She liked Luke, as much as she let herself like anyone. He’d always been nice to her, and she tried to loosen. Nan and Em were nodding their heads as well. It seemed this was a night for me to sit with the elders of our pod. I loved each of them to the ends of the earth. But Donna wasn’t finished. “This being co-opted by the president has been bothering you ever since the announcement, hasn’t it?” I could only sigh and nod my head. “First, you need to let everyone in on your thinking. We should try to have a Skype call Saturday so Joan, Rachel, Remas, Livy, and Desi can participate and understand what’s. In their hands, they swung their massive two-handed swords that could cleave into half anyone or anything in their path and none of the monsters that crossed their charge could hold against their fury.Above, slowly catching up from behind, was Trinity and myself. I let her take low-center point, flying rather raggedly just above the Goat’s towed trailer, wand out in hand. Her job at this point was to stay out of trouble and help her mother deal with anything colossally big that the roaring. “It is simple” he began “You will do what I say when I say it no matter what it is, you will wear what I tell you to wear it and you will not wear things I prohibit you to do so. You will do what I tell you to do without hesitation, you will act the way I tell you to act and perform the way I tell you to, Do that and you will be rewarded. Fail to do as I tell you or perform the things I tell you and you will be for want of a better word punished, is that clear?” The Little Princess was.