And anyway, he was muzzled so it wasn’t as though I was terrified. I had no intent to hurt him in any way. I just wanted to get his attention in a m...nner that he’d understand so that he would give up his attempts. The only thing was that firm words hadn’t worked at all. So I put him in his place — before things got ridiculous. After clipping his nails, Ajax would do anything for me and wanted to follow me around being well-behaved as though he was my own dog. I even found that I liked him. Once. Seeing that made Danica determined to learn the spell — and soon — to take some of the burden from the other two magic users.The appearance of the demon had unnerved them all slightly, but they quickly got over it as they laughed and celebrated their victory. Janelle went to tend to Terran, and Danica went to take care of Celes. Both wizards recovered quickly under the power of restorative potions and joined the group's celebration after a short while.Danica noticed that Janelle was spending a. I could launch a war on somebody, but if my hair appeared mussed that would be the lead topic on the news, before the war.My new look was national news that evening, with telephoto lens shots of Marilyn, Stormy, and me climbing down from Marine One. The regular networks just did a quick thirty second piece on it, comparing me to other presidents with beards or mustaches, almost all of whom, it turned out, were Republican. (Except for Grover Cleveland, a Democrat; not sure what the significance. . the news saying that Paul’s your boyfriend? Sometimes they even call him your, your lover.”It was an hour and a half later, and Paula was talking to her mother at the prison for women.“Yeah, he’s my boyfriend. Oh Mommy he’s just wonderful! He says nice things to me and he always hugs and kisses me and he saved me from this horrible spider and when we first met Ted and we thought he might be a bad guy Paul grabbed a knife and told me to run for it he was gonna fight a grown-up man to protect.