- Charlie said, before hesuddenly stopped talking.-What? - Andrea said as she looked at her little brother and to hersurprise she saw some tears on hi... eyes, before he cleaned them with herhand and sighed.- I... I think I would be happier if I were a girl. I'm... actually sure ofthat. I think ...no, I know that... I want to be a girl - Charlie said,stuttering.Andrea heard that with surprise, and both stood quietly, until Charliebroke the silence-Please, say something! Anything! Say what you're. She opened the bedroom door and made her way downstairs quietly so she would not disturb the others in their rooms. When she reached the foot of the stairs, she looked around the corner into the living room but it was still quiet. She went into the kitchen, hoping that Nell or Thea would be there but it was empty, and not knowing what to do until the others came in, decided to go back up to her room and wait. It was then that she noticed the door to the basement, slightly ajar, menacingly. When he puts me under, I don't remember anything. I don't even recall if I told him what you said to me when I tried to get the Book from you."Jason looked confused. "What do you mean?" You remember, what you said to me about the pendant when I took the Book -- well, the fake Book -- from you."Jason shook his head, mystified."It was something like the Book not doing what he wanted without the linked pendant." I never said that." Yes, you did, Jason, I heard you, and Victor probably got it out. Adramelech, when he was annoyed, wasn't something you wanted to see. It tended to petrify one and petrification wasn't good for a body, or its continuing existence."Well..." Xaphan was probably enjoying the telephone conversation. " ... it means we'll have no heating." So... ?" His voice had become just a tad more gravelly in timbre."Well, being that the Boss decided that, for 'aesthetic reasons', we should be in the basement, it's going to get pretty cold down here."The Boss was a name that.