" I used to work for a local comic book company for the fuck of it — I was their whole marketing department - and they did a lot of science fiction ...onventions. Generally, if these cons even had a dance, it was lousy, but there was a group that did exactly what you're looking for, and had the library to support a crowd of any age and taste. They called themselves Radio Free Mordor — yeah, they're geeks — and they're probably still around. Let me see if I can track them down."They reached the. It was strange though, it sounded distant and childlike. "Gemini!" A soft voice called and I looked up. The cottage door opened and there, much taller then me, stood my mother and father smiling down at me. My vision blurred and became unfocused then suddenly I was in the cottage, except it was on fire. My mother whisked me into her arms and ran me outside.My father lay dead on the front stoop his blood pooling around him and seeping from his gut. My mother was crying.I was crying.She ran down. Humiliating or not I was going to the shop dressed like this.'You can go to the local Asda' Master said, 'that way you won't need to drive the car in those heels'Great that would mean further ridicule walking down the street not to mention having to manage these heels.'we're going to give you a shopping list' he said, 'go and touch up your lipstick while we get it ready'I did as I was told and I stood upstairs in front of the mirror thinking about what had happened in the last week or so. I put. Didn't mean to blind-side you, though. I intended to get to know you a little and then ask if you'd give me a hand if I had any trouble with my classes. The word is that you're called 'Brain Trust.' I'm really a pretty good student, but sometimes I just can't get past something a teacher says. A friend of my brother's said you might help me out a little now and then. I'd appreciate that." That was a new twist on my name that I hadn't heard. Lionel was from Rockwell Elementary so somehow word.