She was right, that was a hard deal. "So youguys used to do this all the time then?" he asked."Whenever I was back after I went to work in China. Fish...ng on Kira'sboat, camping sometimes while we did that too. We started hiking thetrail up to Canada a couple of years ago. We're probably going to seeabout doing that again sometime next year," she said finishing the roll."So can you come with me when she gets here?"Derek looked at her. Her wanting him to be there for this was written allover her. Our university has a program which consists of diploma courses in advanced English language and is a residential course for high school students from Indonesia and Malaysia. I am one of the three Australian tutors responsible for teaching and assessment in this program, and Sari is one of my students. Sari has been a student of mine for about two months. She is only sixteen years old and comes from a high school in Perak, Malaysia to take advanced English Language units to qualify for entry. I picked up the consecrated sword, the many symbols etched into the blade names of powerful Gods, and began chanting as I traced the outline of the magick circle with the sharp point. I called upon the four Archangels at the points of the compass as I reached them in turn, so that they may aid in a successful operation. After this was completed I used the sword to drop incense particular to the spirit Vassago into the flames of the brazier. Plumes of smoke erupted, filling the room completely.. "Or why you waited until December 20th to get our decorations." I watched as a young boy snapped a candy cane in half, looked around in horror then quickly ran away. My mother was busy throwing every sparkly object she could find into our cart. "Because, your brother hasn't been home since he got that ridiculous idea to spend his summer 'exploring' with those friends of his," she placed a handful of gold and silver star shaped baubles into the cart. "I wanted us to actually put the tree up all.