I asked if they wanted to sit out on the deck, and have a coke&hellip,but Troy said, I have to go, my dad wants me to have dinner and focus on packing... I told Benny, well, if you have nothing to do, you can stay. He said, no thanks, I gotta go to, but I might be back later. I said ok, wished Troy a good trip and they left. With Troy gone, and little kids to hang with, Benny has been coming over almost every day. Sometimes he is sitting on my steps when I return from work&hellip,.he is a very. "Yeah, sort of. I got a white index card with a typed reply that was a touch rude, but didn't answer my question. One reason I'm outgrowing him. The guy's a bit of a dick. Well," he corrected, considering it again, "probably more the fact his books are a bit ... simple. That's probably one reason I loved them when I was twelve, though." I've been meaning to read that Tarot one," Julie said, happily. Bill smiled back at her."It's a sort of companion series to his five book Cluster series, which. I spared no time to knock as I flew through the door and into my Master’s chamber. Sweat that had beaded on my forehead from fear, not from exertion, slipped into my eyes and stung them with their salt. I blinked as I looked around frantically. For a moment my gaze was blind and unseeing. I didn’t know why I was so afraid, but the look on Cariel’s angelic face before I had sprinted from the room had shaken me. My vision cleared and I saw Lord Devnikolus sitting with his eyes closed in the. .. and unworthy of respect.”Tehlariene blinked in surprise, then looked forlorn. “That’s why they never bully you, Sarinia. You’re so smart, you’d cut them to the quick and have them running away in tears!”“Perhaps I should anyway?” Sarinia asked playfully, her golden eyes twinkling. “After all, it is the eldest sister’s prerogative to torment her younger siblings...”Tehlariene giggled at the thought. “I can just imagine it! Rosanae still trying her best to look haughty while blubbering like a.