“It wasn’t a total loss,” the witch counters.It wasn’t? You’re crying. He took something from us, something that can’t be given back.“No... he gave us something,” she says.You’ve got a sick sense of humor if you think that.“He opened us up to something new to explore,” the witch explains.Oh, he opened us up alright. I’m surprised that damn thing still works.“Not that silly,” Penelope admonishes the cat. “He introduced us to...”“You’re the one that sounds silly,” a gravelly voice suddenly calls. At that moment, Meg spotted Sydney. She pulled her foot away put her sandal back on and bounced from her chair. She crossed between the tables and when she was close enough yelled to Sydney, "Hi Sid, what ya up to."Sydney turned and seeing Meg hollered back, "Hi Meg, I'm just doing some shopping. My girl friends were supposed to meet me here but they haven't shown up yet, who ya here with?" I'm here with my brother and his friend, why don't you come over to our table and join us."Meg grabbed. “Even when I’m on a more rational schedule, I’ll be on call a lot.”“So we’re all agreed that the specific day we celebrate isn’t that important? Birthdays and anniversaries?”“Yes,” Jessica said. “And it might impact Thanksgiving and Christmas sometimes, too.”“Christmas will be a bit trickier with Josie, Jennifer, and Elyse involved,” I said. “But we’ll manage. Oh, I meant to tell you, Carol had a guy with her on Friday. A professor from UofC named Stan. He seemed like a pretty nice guy.”“Good. "This is the complaining I was talkingabout! And I bet, given how upsetting the past few hours have been,you'd like to cross your arms in a display of displeasure a lot more." Exactly!" Robin took an angry bite. "What does Fate have against methat she does this to me? I would have been the only woman on the planethappy with a stick-like body and a flat chest. Instead I'm... this!"Vivian tapped her spoon to her chin. "You know, the other girls didn'tseem as interested but I have a theory on that.