." Avith could hear the guards' heavy armor rattle towards her. "Dammit," she cursed under her breath, turning to flee. She slipped out the window of ...he inn, speaking a word of magic as she pulled a feather from her pouch, dropping to the ground lightly. Her green glowing eyes were of course easy to spot. She might as well be carrying a red flag over her head with her name written on it."Guards! Assist me!" She saw a guard standing near the corner looking at her. With a quick incantation and. . and, “Deal, Frank and no bottom dealing!”“Have at it,” I said to Maria and rolled up my sleeves.She was shocked when I pitched in.“Señorita, never say you’ll work in here.”At o’dark thirty, I hollered, “Let’s go home, tomorrow we’ll have a crew.”Outside, on the concrete apron, was a decrepit old SUV parked in the shade. Edgar and Maria headed for it. So I got in too. They were s trifle surprised when Cat loaded up.“Drive,” I said.“Left ... one block ... right ... one block ... left .... “I’ll be right back with your Cokes,” Adele said and I watched her walk around the counter to turn the order in.“Boy, Mom looks really good today. She sure is smiling a lot,” Mario said.“Yeah, and you should have seen us when we got off the bus today out there at Kendall’s Store, Josey. We heard a car horn honking and we looked around to see who it was. All the boys and girls looked over there when we did, to see Mom waving her hand out the window of that pretty blue car and we took off over. He went into action. With his sword in hand he charged up the dragons side, running the blade deep into its flesh. It swiped at him and he dodged, cutting off the dragons hand. For its final move, the dragon reared back, exposing its glowing heart which Marin pierced. A long roar echoed through the canyon and the beast finally collapsed on the ground. Nice work, Marin. Andrew complimented and smacked his back. Hardly any work. That was just a baby. A baby?! Kimi asked hysterically, What the.