The face matched the body. Percy's now very blond hair had grown toshoulder length and permed into a 1960's princess bouffant style with ayet another ...uge white satin, bejeweled bow at its crown before itcascaded into a halo about his head and neck. His base makeup was nowpermanent, as was his total lack of hair beneath his thin, highly archedeyebrows.Thanks to collagen injections, his lips were shaped into a perpetualcupid-shaped, pursed pout that screamed for uses other than speaking.The. “Eric you misunderstood. We are glad you came and I believe you came because you care about your friends. I know you well Eric. This is why we want to offer you a chair in the Circle. Our rules prohibit a man to be present but Freya would be welcome.”“As much as it intrigues me and at another time I would have said yes, I don’t trust you to be frank and on top of all that I will not commit murder and acts ofterrorism. I sympathize with your goals and your cause very much especially in the light. The body that went with them.Then Lester slowly stepped out of the booth, stunned to see a teenageboy who looked exactly like him stepping out of the other booth. Or atleast looking exactly like what he was supposed to look like."You okay Little Les?" his dad asked the boy who looked like Lester."I am NOT your Little Les," the boy snarled with more force than Lesterhad ever used, causing his dad to step back in surprise. The boy glaredat the machine, and then Lester, cursing, "Damn! Do you. Anytime I was ‘grounded’ he would be made to stay home to make sure I wouldn’t leave the house, mother still liked her nights out at cards or bingo, so he would have to do whatever she wanted. Like a lot of men he was a sucker, one night when I was about 13 or 14 and under curfew he was out of cigarettes. So he decides run to the store to buy a pack, he made me promised I wouldn’t leave the house while he was gone. Once he was gone, I locked the door before he got back, and when he returned he.