Have we taken anything from portfolios yet?’I: ‘No.’A: ‘When we take stocks or bonds, it’s going to hit the market, and the market in that s...ock, at least, will crash. The stocks are going to be harder to take. They’re all registered, there are brokers who control stocks.’I: ‘Surely you jest. It’s all computerized. If one could jigger the computer instructions ... we can create a transaction. The stock becomes cash in an account, we take the cash.’A: ‘Okay, if you say so. But don’t call me. So&hellip, Bill said, but Harry stopped him. I do NOT want to go there, Harry thought, not the weird Weasley male thing again. So Gabrielle is&hellip, how old, exactly? Harry asked. She was actually born only two years after you were, Bill replied. Veela go through puberty a lot slower than we do, but when they do hit it, boy do they hit it and hard. Ten on ten, eh? Harry asked with a grin. Eleven on ten, Bill said with a mischievous smile, his scars growing prominent as his skin stretched. She could almost sense what I was thinking right then. I am sure it read on my face that I was hurt.Hayden didn’t say anything. She didn’t seem like she knew what to say.“I am not going home. At least not right now,” I said as I thought about my options. If I left right at that moment though then they would definitely never respect me.“Stay Master Justin, I am sorry,” Hayden said I could punish her if it would help. I didn’t want to punish her. I wanted her to take back the words and have a. .. I had more pawns. An idea of what to do. A direction and goal.Azuliana – The Vyman PlainsA few days later after the latest meeting with Throwia, my son led us out of the trees. I was glad to be out of the forest and see the blue sky overhead. Like a sea that hung above us, the scattering of clouds foam. The sun shone warm on me.It burned with fire.I closed my eyes, feeling that fire in me. I was a dragon, and these damned manacles kept me as a human. I could change my shape, but my wrists.