“Come in” Jake heard the captain say. He opened the door, and there she was, sitting in one of the two chairs in front of the Captains desk. His...heart dropped. The object of his desire, and the cause of the most amazing night of his life, was sitting right there. This is going to hurt he thought. He was waiting on the guys to grab him from behind, drag him off, and beat him to a bloody pulp. “Sit down Jake we need to talk. Sarah came in today to talk to me about you, and after talking. ..” I sighed. “It’s...”“Stop,” she interrupted. “I told you I’m no little girl any more. I don’t have a wild-eyed fantasy that when we graduate, you’ll suddenly change course and show up at my door with an engagement ring.” She smiled, “But if you do, I’ll accept it. Even Joyce has outgrown her fantasy. Oh, like me, I’m sure she still holds a glimmer of hope, but Kara pretty effectively put Joyce in her place. And Joyce knew it was coming. She didn’t freak out, did she? She didn’t cry?”“No, she. The long drive back to college wasn’t accomplished easily. It was the start of summer and things were heating up in the city.Tiffany’s job required periodic Saturday hours and many of Molly’s Sundays were booked by Concerts in the Park or private tutorials. The only weekend everyone else had free turned out to be the first Children of the Cornbread picnic that Hailey had arranged.That led Hailey to suggest Phil take a solo excursion in order to present a better picture of what was available and. Ursus wanted to find some information about contemporary magical practice, if there was any. The magic described in The Iliad and The Odyssey had intrigued him, and he hoped to learn if anyone was currently writing about magical techniques that actually worked.The card catalog indicated that there were a number of books on magic tricks, but only a few on actual spell casting. We went to the single shelf. The library allowed one person to check out no more than four books at a time on a given.