"Unfortunately despite giving the Council the jigs and plates along with the necessary techniques to make them, they haven't yet been able to emulate ...y success, so I spend a lot of time making amulets for specific Mages on request. Makes me a nice tidy profit, but doesn't give me a lot more time for research." You mean that the Council can't copy your amulets, John?" asked Mage Angéle."Apparently not," I replied. "Though I've demonstrated the technique to them five times now." Guess that. The three of us, everybody called us M.G.M. after the film studios because you never saw one without the other. Mel, Grace, and Meg, our names. Grace was the youngest on that day, just turned thirteen, next Mel, four or five months older, and finally Meg almost fourteen. Oh, by the way, I'm Grace. We all joined senior school at eleven and within a month or so we were the closest of friends. Mel was the tallest, all long, coltish, legs. Lightly tanned and long blond hair pulled back into a pony. ”“I’m a very still sleeper.”“That may be but I sleep nude.” I now had an erection. I’m pretty sure that was her plan when she made that statement. It worked. She grinned at me.Fortunately, my parents soon drove up and I handed Agnes into the back seat and went around to get in. Other than friendly “good mornings,” the drive was in silence. Agnes and I held hands in the back. Dad’s car had a back cushion in the middle in back which made sitting next to each other impossible.We went to a chain. ]The second man says [maybe I can help you. I noticed a pit along the path a ways back. There was a female gorilla in it it. I bet that with some of the vines we can get her out and tie her to a tree.]After a time they have succeeded and the gorilla is tied to a tree with many vines around her.First man says [This will work but she is so ugly in the face.] second man [There is an old paper bag over there in the bushes we can put over her head.]The first man smiles runs to the gorilla and starts.