The medallion also has one more effect, though it isn’t listed anywhere. Once it becomes soulbound, no one but the wearer can remove it. Even if I w...re to hang upside down, it would not fall off. If my hand hadn’t been touching it, you wouldn’t have even been able to lift it at all.”“So it’s like Thor’s hammer, Mjolnir, in a way. It makes sense. If you got captured and someone was able to remove it, then it wouldn’t be a very useful item,” I said as a thought came to me. “You said that your. ." Name's Jim Couch Mr. Reading; I own the Leona." He pulled on the draft handle, drew a beer, and set it on the bar in front of Josiah. "Reason I snorted is that it didn't exactly go like the Sheriff said." What's the truth of the matter Mr. Couch?"Jim wiped down the bar with a towel and looked at Josiah. Man's got the south in his voice, Couch thought. Not a Texas twang, maybe he lived in Georgia or Alabama; but he's from the south for sure. Course there's still a lot of those southern boys. It was like something out of a Jane Austen novel.We live in the DC area and so it is natural to talk politics. I’m a nerd, so politics doesn’t interest me. But Kari works for a lobbying firm and of course her friends were slightly more political than Karl Marx himself.They were arguing about what had to be done to stop the government’s unwarranted intrusion into people’s lives. Like a lot of the Foggy Bottom types, her husband was a bleeding-heart. And Isobel was more Libertarian than Thoreau;. “Not even close!” Kara laughed playfully. “Sex was never a problem for me, it was the timing that was the issue. Remember, I was allowed in the sex-ed classes and knew about it. I just thought it was only for marriage. That girl, I don’t think she has clue one about anatomy, boys or girls.”“Josh joked that if I wasn’t with you, he’d sic me on her!” I said.“It would be hilarious to see her reaction, but forget it! There is no way that she would ever kiss you. That’s what did me in. That first.