. one thousand paes. what do you say?" The merchant said with a greedy smile. Now on one hand, I could've just walked away at that point and not looke... back but on the other hand....wings. "Deal." I said shaking the dirty merchant's hand. I took the amulet and clipped it on my neck. My aura seemped from me slightly and turned the stone to a dark blue. "The incantation is 'Pando' or you can just tap it once for flight and tap it twice to cancel flight. Thanks for stopping by." I left the market. It was good that Ma had a hand in our outing or we might have dined on nuts, crisps and corn chips. Instead there was salad, conveniently cut as finger food, and sandwich meat curled into toothpick fastened tubes with coloured cocktail onions or pimento stuffed olives. She had also seen we had cold bite-sized home-made sausage rolls and sandwich stacks with finger thick slices -- three high and again secured by toothpicks. Nourishing, tasty, and likely to be eaten by teenagers!Lunch was a time. The parade of men over the years had irked him. However, there was little he could do about them since he was married, and she wasn’t.He had contemplated having an affair with Mary many times, but he knew that once she had said no, she meant no. If she broke off the relationship, you didn’t get a second chance. Plenty of other blokes had learned that the hard way and he wasn’t totally stupid.To be honest with himself, he knew that Janet suited him. He had come to love her and didn’t want to. "And you two invented this stuff?" asked Kylie.Karita looked at Josef who nodded."No... the best way to describe what we did is that we reverse-engineered the material," said Karita.Kylie stared back. "So... who actually invented it?" We don't know their names or even who they were... we discovered thematerial in a crash site that we excavated," said Josef."I... I don't understand," said Kylie."It was a space-ship. We suspected it crashed in northern Iceland. Wesuspect that it happened a little.