The key changes for Matthew has been the onset of puberty. He had been a late developer, at least compared to his schoolfriends, and was just starting...to exhibit some of the angst, and also some of the physical changes, that come with the territory. He was starting to become more muscular, his voice was deepening and he was starting to develop acne. He was also completely unaware of his changing attitudes to those members of the opposite sex, those that he had previously had so little time for.. ''Maybe in eighteen months.''I'll buy you a drink in eighteen months.'She shrugs. A pause rose up between them where it felt like someone should of said something, but no one did.'Is Dorothea around?' her name broke the strange mood, a reminder perhaps of where they were.'No she is at lunch. Can I help?'She saw something, a glint in his eye, a tiny movement of muscles in his expression that meant something in a language she didn't speak.***There were two types of people in the office. Those. Grandpa A.J. Must be psychic in some way not relevant to the role of guardians he held back home, because he managed to appear just as we were finally setting the table. He grabbed his cup of coffee and joined us at the table. The griddle attachment for the stove top really lets me make pancakes any size I want, so I had made huge restaurant sized ones. We dug in, and although I noticed Grandpa avoiding the butter, everyone enjoyed the breakfast, and the strawberry smoothies were really great!. As healers themselves, they were also interested in Gynt's history. They were all welcomed with open arms into village life. Madeleine's mother, Pamela Andersen, was quite a beauty. Madeleine's grandmother, Poe, looked very young for a grandmother, and offered to help Tsanja in her teaching at the village school.Madeleine was good with school-work, maybe even better than Penn, and had a wicked sense of humour. She seemed to click with her classmates from the first day, although she never seemed.