"Oh goody" she replied. "Soon it won't matter, as I'll be putting on a few pounds myself."They all laughed at this. As soon as the food was finished M...rtha insisted they continue with the attempt to get her fat. This time it was four restoratives and a tonic for her throat as she had screamed herself hoarse.With Martha's immediate needs taken care of, it was time for Tony to be debriefed. Great concern was expressed about the news that the Brotherhood had shifted their sphere of operations to. “Is simple: A driver and a team of lancers rides the course, which is the entire undercity hive-sprawl and sewers. Everyone who gets through the endline wins. The driver’s job is to keep the chariot from crashing. The Lancer’s job is to fight off other chariots.”“Why?” I asked. “Like, you said anyone who gets through wins, right? Why fight?”“It’s not us you got to worry about, lassie,” Omega said.But a great big gong rang out – and Omega lifted his head, hissing. “Bugger.”The chariots began to. .? How...?" Then taking a deep breath, Jarod asked, "Why me?" Why not?" Zappy answered from across the room.Sean....Lorna gave him a look of annoyance. "Because..." She paused fora moment thoughtfully, then continued, "Because we've pretty much allknown each other for most of our lives. We've all grown up in this town.The reason that we all got into the club in the first place was toexperience new things, see things from other peoples points of view.It's fantastic. More fun...more exciting than. The wizard smiled, holding the bottle out. "If you do anything, I drop it and you never get cured."Getting control of himself, Caiden gave the wizard all of the money he had on him, then had to borrow more from his companions to pay the wizard's price. As he walked away though, he smiled, tightly clutching the bottle that would break the curse that was on him.---Prince Caiden had waited, impatiently for a fortnight, until the moon was full. Finally it was time. He waited that night until the.