It’s okay. You don’t have to be afraid.”Warmth engulfed my body. I did still have a body. I wasn’t just a consciousness floating in an uncreat...d void. The warmth drew me away from the void. Merita’s voice guided to me, beckoning to me. I followed the fairy’s words and opened my eyes.I was still in a void.Only in this void I had a body. I blinked as I floated through a darkness more absolute than any I had ever encountered. And yet I could see my naked body as clear as if sunlight lit them. But. "Tell me, priestess of Phoebus Apollo, He who is known as Far-Seer, tell me what happened that night when you rejected Lord Apollo? What really happened? Tell me exactly. I've a mind to hear that instead of something you'll make up about this palace and the plots brewing here." Don't you know?"She shook her head.I gazed at her, wondering how much of the story to tell. But she was a priestess of The Lady. Even more, we were friends."He came to me..."He came to me in the Temple. He came to me in. " Enchanted?" Dave had a suspicion where this was going, but he neededSandra to say it out loud.Sandra smiled in a way that reminded Dave of when she'd ask fordangerous toys as a kid. "Um, well, I've got a friend who is a bit of awitch. So magically enchanted. Like for real magic." Of course. A friend who is a witch, and what did this witch friend ofyours give you to give to me?"Sandra dropped the box on Dave's lap, pulled the top off, and waved overtop of it like it was an important article of. I groan knowing trouble when I hear it. What is it now&hellip, Probably just more of her homework. Shes a senior now while Im only a sophomore, but she has me help her out with homework, which end up with me doing it for her more often than not. I want to tell her to do it herself, but shes always been like a big sister to me, even if I had all the book smarts, so she always has been the boss of me. Shes pretty much ruled my life even more than my own mother. When we were very young shed always.