I knew as I jumped out of bed and threw on jeans and a t-shirt this was going to be bad. I could only mumble a hasty prayer to The God and Goddess as ... headed out the door almost forgetting my shoes and everything else. Leaving the dog barking insanely in the living room, I sprinted for the hidden curve behind my house. ‘Please Goddess’ I prayed ‘its summer vacation, don’t let any of the kids be up early today, don’t let any of the neighborhood kids be involved’. As I’d rounded the corner and. "All right. I confess. I worry. This whole superhero business scares me. I know I promised to support you. I'm trying my best to stand behind you, but it still scares the hell out of me when you put yourself in danger." I'm sorry if this scares you. It scares me, too. When I go up against someone who is willing to kill and is equipped to do it, it scares the crap out of me. But I steel myself to do it anyway. I need to be able to get my head into a place where I can focus on what needs to be. "Now ,Sr.Agnes, I am afraid that I will be quite busy for a number of hours once the Royal Penitent's arrive,so I am entrusting you with chastisement of those I would have beaten," the Abbess said producing a list of names.Sr.Agnes took the list and read down through the names,she licked her lips slowly at the prospect of thrashing so many bottoms."I am only too happy to assist you,Mother Abbess",Sr.Agnes said.Wednesday,the day the Abbess was ,longing to arrive came and she waited in her. Wherever it was we were going, we got there and Mr. Jones and Dr. Wills ushered all of us inside a rather grungy looking warehouse in a seedy looking part of some place. I took a deep breath. Dank, salty, grimy, sooty, rank, rotten, dirty and decaying."Shit... is this Baltimore?" I asked Mr. Jones."Yup... I take it you were doing something other than watching the road signs?" Yeah, actually I was trying to work out a way to give Anya her free will back."He stared at me for five very slow heart.