While walking around, she came across a hole in the wall shop called “The Witches Paradise”. She saw various candles burning in the window surroun...ing an old wooden stick shaped like a wand. Over the door was a dream catcher with a pentagram and 6 skulls of dead rodents hanging underneath.“Hmmm, that’s strange…”, she muttered. Oddly intrigued, she entered the shop and heard the tell-tale chime of a doorbell hanging from the top. As she walked around, she could tell very quickly that this wasn’t. Besides, she hardly thought Peggy was his type. He was, after all, married to a former model who still looked like she stepped out of some fashion magazine.“Sometimes it’s not what a girl looks like as much as what she’s willing to do,” Carol commented.Joan gave her a what do you mean look.“Remember Marlene Depaul,” Carol clarified.A light of understanding filled Joan’s eyes. Marlene Depaul had been a French exchange student at the college that Joan and Carol had gone to. With plain looks and. There were no artificial boundaries that told them they could not enjoy and seek pleasure wherever they chose, and if they desired to give the pleasures they could provide for money, well there was no one who was going to object to the fair exchange of one for the other. As the Families grew and became more self-focused, they began to migrate further away, looking for enough land to support the growing population. After a time, there were nine areas, or territories, with borders that were hard. “Take on some other project,” I suggested. “You could always take Mary Beth someplace nice to observe the Cranes when they move on again.”“I couldn’t do that,” he said seriously.“It was a joke, find another bird that needs saving,” I suggested.“Mary Beth wants to buy your land first thing,” he said. “There is more than enough money for that now.”Why don’t you wait to see if the cranes return. If they come back next year it’s yours, just pay for the work Tommy and I did to improve it,” I.