The tender ribbons of meat melted under tongue and did much to help her ignore Diana grinning across the table. Her sister’s volatile treachery terr...fied her, but every time the feeling seemed overwhelming, Maddi stuffed another protein in her mouth.“Diana, Madison. I can’t believe this.” Dr. Dory Drake smiled from her seat next to Rochelle. She was a brown-haired woman in her 60s with square vintage glasses and a pressed, dark charcoal suit. “You guys were teenagers the last time I saw. There, I heard the sound of a woman's voice singing:"It's a song as sweet as the daffodils,It's a sound as soft as a sigh,And nothing else can quite compareWith the lilting song of the Lorelei!"I followed the sound to a rock where a woman was playing on a mandolinand singing a song that touched my heart deeply:"I long to have my own true love,I long to have a life,But nothing else can quite cause strifeLike the lilting song of the Lorelei!" That's too bad, Lorelei," I said, "but I can. Once we got to our classroom, on the second floor of the English building, I drew more interest. Various girls came up to D and Jane as we walked in. It was still early, so there were only a handful of people, almost all were giving me interested looks."Who's the new Girl, D?" asked one slight brunette."This is Mandy, she's starting today," D replied."Hi," I said."You get lumbered with showing the new girl around or something?" asked a blonde, who had cat's eyes."Nah, Mandy's a good friend of. " "How in the hell did it get out here?" "I don't know Levy, I guess they were taking it somewhere, and it got away from them. The big bastard could have broke their boat or raft or fell off whatever they had it setting on." Rubi walked over to shut the pump down and screamed, "Look", and she was pointing into the screen. Well we had our first gold. There were quite a few rocks and some other debris, but there was a gold something. I had no idea what it was. It had designs made into it and was.