”That’s what worries me.Penelope pushes open the door and steps inside. “Hello?”“Come on up!” High Wizard Starkey’s voice comes down fro... above. “I send God into town.”That’s disappointing.“That’s for sure,” she agrees, totally missing the sarcastic tone in Hazel’s voice.With haste, the girl practically bolts up the stair to her father’s room. When she reaches the top and steps in, Starkey has a big smile on his face. “I didn’t expect to see you so soon,” he says.“Things got cut a little. ’ She defied your home! She challenged your might and the might of your allies. Eat her. Devour her. Take her strength and meat into you.” The predator dragged its huge claws along the rock it stood upon, and deep gouges broke open in their wake. “Where is the animal hunger within you?”“She deserves life.”“For one to live, another must die. You are a predator! And you deny your instincts so you can play guard dog for these humans.”“Medusa—”“Is a human in a monster’s body. You waste your time. We just want to know how you feel."Jake is an experienced trial lawyer. One would think he has learned to react well under pressure. But in this case his cheeks were bright red and he had trouble enunciating his response. "Well, uh, I don't, uh, know Donnie. Are you two sure about this?"Helen replied, "Jake, both of us have this little itch we'd like to scratch; just once, and only if everyone is okay with it. Donnie is madly in love with her husband. He has nothing to worry about concerning. His respect for you went up dramatically when you offered to come on this mission and you did not have to. You are at a point in your life now where you must let old habits fall to the wayside no matter how hard that may seem. These men and women you see here ... all but one or two have fought directly with Martin Leonidas over the course of the last year, some like Daniel Simpson since they were small boys and they would cast themselves into the heart of a sun instantly and without regard if.