Even Wizards have a hard time protecting themselves from going from zero to ten gees in a heartbeat,” she said as she straightened the sheet over my...lap.“Thirsty?” she added as she straightened up to her 150cm height.She held the tray over my lap and let it go. I gasped. Expecting the tray to drop onto my lap but it held steady. I glanced at her. “A magician?” I enquired.She chuckled softly, “Of course.”I smiled at her and lifted the coffee to my nose. I inhaled the delightful aroma and took a. That's not far from the swamps. We could hide out in the cypress swamps until the second coming and nobody could dig us out, especially looking like this." That got a quick round of agreement. That rang a bell with me. I'd tell the others as needed, but I already had a place picked out.Well, that got us busy. We grabbed the welder and some flat stock to turn an inner room, the break room, into a lock-up. Joe and I welded barriers across the hallways so that a bathroom was inside the perimeter,. “I know. I could tell that from watching you. Now that you’ve met him, what do you want to do next?”Jennifer thought for a bit. “I’m not sure,” she said then smiled as she continued, “I guess this is another one of those ‘sleep on it’ things. Hopefully by the morning I’ll know where we go from here.”The next morning Jennifer was wide awake and sitting in one of the chairs in the main room of our suite when I woke up. At first I thought she was sleeping but I realized she was deep in thought.. But when he did show up, she was the one following him around like a puppy dog.There were other changes in him, his physique and his new ability to wish things to happen being the two most noticeable. Talking to him was different. He had grown up. It was like he'd been away to college for four years, not lost in the woods for three and a half months...And then losing Burt. Thank God, it didn't happen, but I knew in my heart it was going to as I watched him waste away to practically nothing from.