I smiled.I changed clothes and put a collar on dog's neck. Staying at hall, I heardPeter finished his phone call. However the door to his room was ope... andhe saw me while I was putting shoes on, he ignored me completely. I felt amix of anger and sadness. Damn, this girl was his younger sister and shecollapsed today. Their father had to handle work and took care for theirsick mother, so they - brother and sister - spent most time at hometogether. There was no reason for isolation and so many. .. er." She is a virgin?" the lawyer looked shocked, his preconceptions of Farang women just having been turned on its head.He turned to the sergeant and repeated what he'd heard and the sergeant looked equally bemused then he regained his composure and said something."If you consent, and confess, in writing then he'll agree. Will you do that?"Kylie gulped then nodded."We will be with you shortly," said the lawyer and again they both left.They returned over an hour later. It was late afternoon. She had a birthmark on her right shoulder strangely in the shape of a fleur de leis. In the audience a young woman gasped and clutched the arm of her husband. She spoke no words but her eyes implored him. He immediately understood and opened the bidding offering $3,000 for the entire family. Loud murmurs arose from the crowd but then quieted, no one counter bid and my family was led off the block to face their new owners. The white man simply nodded at them, took his wife’s arm to leave, and. I had also seen David De Tocqueville and several other Ley Line Wizards arguing with the police. What I hadn’t seen were any helicopters, but I did see a number of reporters and their news vans or satellite trucks. I quickly moved back into the darker area inside the entrance.“We definitely have a problem,” I told Ken and our Familiars.“You think so?” Al asked in a smart-aleck voice.“Here is what we are going to do. Ken, transfer our Familiars and the backpacks to the house. Then, transform.