I quickly undressed and put the suit on. Then headeddownstairs to the pool and joined my younger sister. We swam togetherfor a while, comparing dive... and showing off to each other for aboutforty five minutes before I was feeling very hungry and told Jenniferthat I was getting out to get something to eat.I towelled off as I headed in the back patio door to the family roomthen up the three steps to the kitchen. Hanging the towel on the backof my kitchen chair I opened the fridge and found some. Being only three years apart, we were very close when we were younger. And even as we grew older we kept in contact. It seems that we have some ESP connection between us. We could always read each other minds; it was hard to keep secrets between us. We still exchange gifts during the holidays every year; and we’ve always seem to have gotten just what we wanted.I have a very successful career in the jewelry industry and put in many long stressful hours a day. Christmas season I just about live. Grond entered the room as but a moving shadow and approached the bed and the shape beneath the covers. “Madam Cyrilo.” He repeated her name until she woke. The moonlight outside was not enough to let her see her guest, so she took her cat form before rising from the sheets, staring through the darkness at Grond.“I had a feeling you would pay a visit.”“Then you know why I’m here.”“The potion, you want it back.”“It is something of dire importance, something that can’t fall out of the Harajin’s. It had also been a boon to the tourism trade as people added “you might get discovered and become a movie star” to their lists of reasons to go to San Finzione. Because of these things, the cast were mostly unknown first timers, and he didn’t recognize any of them.“Dietz has to be well-funded, too.” Mander offered. “As gaga as Scott was for the guy, there’s no way you let a buncha guys walk off with half your guns and however many bombs without a deposit or something.”“Hmm.” Helen hmmed. “We.