The following Wednesday I finished up work early and got home just after lunch. I wasn't really thinking about it but was pleasantly surprised to see ...rica out in her backyard when I went upstairs to turn on the computer. She was working around her pool as usual bouncing around in her little tank top. Knowing now that she could see me up here made it a little game to see how long it would take her to notice me watching. She looked to be very busy even having to wipe the sweat from her brow a. As she started across the barren bottom of the cove, the Sun's heat was stifling and the air seemed thinner. In her right hand, Brenda clenched a large neon green cylinder and her left hand held a jade green vial.Upon reaching the mammoth tree, she inserted the spindle-like device into the pocket formed by the Maple's trunk. The rounded nosecone leaned away from the main trunk and almost touched the limb that Brenda had lovingly shaped during her last visit here. Twisting the small jar open. I am on you in an instant, hitting you full-force from the side, tumbling you to the ground, and the force of my strike rolls us over and over each other in the knee-high grass of the plain, but you are strong, stronger than i had calculated, and fast, indescribably fast, and my miscalculation nearly costs me my prey. I snarl in frustration and anger as you find your feet before i can and leap away, streaking through the grass away from the lake in the only direction possible, away from me,. ‘This is a tough time of year for me. I’m not sure I could deal with…with something like that.’ ‘This is the perfect time,’ Millie countered. ‘This is when things change, that’s what my mother always told me. Christmas is for changes and new beginnings.’ ‘I thought that was spring.’ Emma tried to change the subject as she took a step towards Sol and Luke’s table. ‘You know, everything gets reborn in spring.’ Millie scoffed. ‘You calling my momma a liar?’ ‘No. No, ma’am.’ Emma hurried over to.