She attached the last of the clusters to her body and stood up just in time to see the crystalline spear crash through Kal’s shield and bite deeply ...nto the right side of his chest. Gerda’s rock hand quickly grew to giant proportions and wrapped around the back of Kal’s head since both of his hands were now holding the large crystal spike sticking out of him. She threw herself backwards and into the wall as the mana golem launched a second javelin. She felt the impact through the stone and felt. "The pebble, the fucking black pebble." Oh, that thing," I said. "Is it valuable? Do you want me to call the cops?" Shut the fuck up," he shouted.No one knew anything and in the end he had to give it up as an outside job, but he wasn't happy about it and for months afterwards he was in a very foul mood. He would get drunk early and usually pick a fight with some one, not me for I was useful, his accountant and I looked after his books and his money. It was inevitable that one night he would. He heard the shower running and figured Casey had forgotten to stop by. He called him mom from the living room and told her everything was fine. He then called a girl friend and chatted.When he got off the phone, he walked back towards Casey's room to say hi.Casey was drying of and applying lotion. He was naked.Casey froze when he saw Tim reflected in the steamy mirrors. Tim stared.Casey immediately covered up his body and told Tim he'd be right out. He closed the door in the older boy's. Then I sent Kiran to prepare a single room on her floor so they could be ‘neighbors’. After a nice breakfast my wife and I decided to push my visit to school to the next day since we wanted to spend some one-on-one time before Sienna would arrive. So we gave Kiran some more chores to do after finishing Sienna’s room, made ourselves comfortable on the couch and started a Game of Thrones marathon. Around 4pm the door bell rang and we got up, following Kiran who was already answering the door..