And the Darkness would have still lurked, plotting its takeover of the town. Then normal would mean slavery when it succeeded.Their mother started tow...rds them. "Let's get in the car, runt," Heather muttered. She jogged around the other side of the car before Melinda could respond."So very kind of you, Sandra, to come pay your respects with me as well."Sandra grunted in reply as she drove the car down Green Avenue. In the back seat, Richie frowned at the shrill voice of his Aunt Marilyn and. Water splashed the bottom of my feet.I fended off slicing blades of unseen air. They struck my shield of abjuration spirits. I whirled those around me while the evocation spirits surged down in tight beams of destruction. Powerful energy to hit him. Shields of rocks, the mighty bowels of the earth, rose to defend him. He maneuvered his horse from the chaos Zanyia crated, leaving the ground in his wake covered in broken boulders he ripped out of the ground.He downed more energy from a vial while. "Get into the tub." he orders.She crawls over the edge and into it. Danny reaches down and unhooks the collar."I am only taking this off to wash you. It goes back on when you are dry. Do you understand?" Yes Master."THWACK.... it smacks her ass with the leather strap on the leash."Puppies don't speak! Now.... Do you understand?"She Yips in a weak impression of a bark.He starts up the water which blasts out ice cold. Diana screams and whimpers as she moves as far away as she can from the stream,. The day had gone great, so great. She’d put in the earplugs again, listening to the weird music that droned through them, just like she had in between all her classes, just like Jack had told her ... and suddenly, she let out a cry as they were rudely ripped out of her ears. There was a hand on her shoulder, and Emily nearly fell to the ground as the hand shoved her hard.“Nice headphones, bitch,” Charlotte said with a saucy grin. The raven-haired girl was a year older than Emily, and was the.