"Maybe check some of the other tables." I have." You say, trying to keep your cool.The woman picks up a stray book from the pile and examines it."Aren...t you a bit old for these books anyway? My thirteen-year-old grew out of them." She tossed the book back on the pile. "All he does now is play something called Fortnite. I don't know what it is with kids these days and their Nintendo Playstations and what-not..."The woman continues to ramble on about her teenager's interests, but your eyes focus. Now that he was officially seventeen and ready to go off and serve his country, Wally thought that it might not be a real bad sin to add another rubber to her collection that she could label “Wally” to remember him by in case he got rubbed out by some Commie bastard when he wasn’t looking.He handed Arlene the flat white box tied with a red ribbon because it was her Confirmation day. Wally didn’t quite understand all the business about Confirmation and it all seemed a bit over the top with. “Master, you know such as I can’t do this. Only the Shapers can do magic. Noble Demetri does the charms for me. He is quite skilled at this type of charm being a healer, as you well know.”James gave her that butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth smile again, “I was just making sure that they had been charmed by the best.”She nodded, pleased that she was offering goods that were worth buying. “He is such a good noble and he only takes one coin of profit in ten from me.”Dusty casually asked, “Do. Monday morning was our day to lengthen the run and we decided that we would take the new route even though we hadn't been down it before. Big mistake.The route wound around lanes and alleyways and took us much further then we expected. half way round and the rain came down quickly turning to hail. Cold wet and exhausted the pair of us arrived back at my house and collapsed through the door into the kitchen. Jenny was in a bad way and I motherly wrapped her in a towel and led her up the stairs.