He would tell Maddie. A prickling sensation all over his body, like he was being stuck by pins, became more intense. Suddenly sharp pains stabbed at h...s face and chest. In a burst of awareness, he remembered being knocked down by the blast and the million shards of glass coming toward him. He could feel them hitting his body and spasmed. There was more urgency in the noises. Then the light and sound faded.He could hear a soft rustle punctuated by beeps from a machine. Hospital, he thought. The. My trap was layered like Cor's space suit's, with multiple layers of gravity fields, each with a surface gravity approaching that of the sun. In between were layers of the same ruby fire that Seablaze had called forth. I had spent many long hours working on the ability to manipulate gravitic fields without resorting to technological tools, and an equally long time replaying the taste of his spell before I was able to duplicate it. The ruby fire led to a little 'pocket dimension' as I thought of. Still, the loss of fifty head of cattle from their staked out location on Devil’s Pass Creek was enough to garner his attention to finding them before other rustlers started to think there was no law in his bailiwick and moved in to fleece the farmers and the ranchers of their walking assets in the dead of the night.Both he and Henrietta had a set routine that always started with a “down on her knees” position that robbed the church going woman of her middle-aged reputation for upstanding moral. Since Ihad a lot of confidence in my home town childhood heroes, Iwillingly accepted. The deal was on, much to the excitement of most of the bar,and I returned that Sunday for the game the next week. Now thisyear the Giants had only lost two games and the Vikings had adifficult time getting a wild card spot. This fact along withthe fact that the Giants had home field advantage so I figuredthat the odds were greatly in my favor. The funny thing is thatfootball doesn't always turnout the way.