”“Looks like you just got your license too, hold on, I'll be right back.”He was in his car for five of the longest minutes of our life. Rita was...scared he might be writing her up but I tried to tell her she did fine and that he would let her go, but she didn’t seem too convinced. Just then we heard his car door slam and saw him walking back over to us.“Everything seems to check out, and seeing as this is your first offense, I'll let you off with a warning, but you better watch it, the next. She moved with such grace. I was enamored with the liltof her voice. The way she held her head or hands. And when she swepther skirt under herself to take a seat I blushed again. No one noticedhow I was reacting to my relief because I did not want Malinda to think Iwas sexually attracted to her mother. Which at that moment I wasthinking I must be. As the three of us chatted I hung on her every word.I would think to myself, "I love how she uses the word wonderful," or,"its beautiful way. Their gifts were more active. They could control and compel, not just share. Where the Everson family has always worked against those who abuse their gifts, the Stott’s legacy is… more complicated. Gerald is an excellent case in point. He’s actively chosen to assist my family and to hunt down people like Harold. And yet...”I understood what she left unsaid. He was overzealous, and that was putting it mildly. The words ‘bad cop’ sprung to mind, in fact – though he hadn’t seemed to merely be. The last battle of the French and Indian Wars for control of the Great Lakes region was ironically a fight between the British rulers of Fort Detroit taken in the French and Indian Wars from the French and the American Indian Tribes under the leadership of Chief Pontiac who had assembled a confederation of Ottawas, Ojibwas, Potawatomis, and Hurons to follow him in seizing Fort Detroit and driving the British and American Militia out of the Great Lakes region.Initially, Chief Pontiac entered the.