"Would you mind if we ate right away?" he asked, hoping to avoid any immediate questions about his visit to his mom and to get things off on the right...foot. "Dinner is ready and I don't want it to get cold."Donna smiled, "That would be nice, Tim. It smells delicious. Did you make it?" she asked with a sly grin."Yeah right, I'm going to ask you to my house for a nice dinner, then risk poisoning you with my cooking?" he laughed. "It's from this restaurant Pete and Trisha took me to a while back.. "Perhaps I can persuade those mean cooks to give me extra now that I've lost weight after being on liquid foods and hospital rations for the last week," I tried to joke. I'd lost well over a stone since my arrival at the school. Most of the hour was spent catching up on things that happened during my absence. The lack of staff was causing problems. They'd co-opted Chris to take gym and sport but maths was a problem. June tried to cope with it but she was no better than her students. Art, they. So Fred comes to the plate. He shoots the thought “help me do good” to heaven. He gets fooled badly on the first pitch. Angrily he steps out of the batter’s box. He calms down, almost in tears. Shooting up the same prayer, he steps back in. The pitch looks like a volleyball coming in. he swings with determination, hears a sweet ring in the bat, and watches the ball sail a mile over the left field fence. The pitcher’s chin drops as the left fielder just stands there watching the rocket fly. Home. He reached and took Tempest’s potion of healing, and poured it into Tempest’s mouth. Tempest looked immediately better again. Agate also took his own potion of healing and drank it himself.Those potions are amazing. I hope we don’t run out of them. Vennoa glanced around and saw the group of kobolds steadily heading towards her and Fender. Fender readied her crossbow and began firing as quickly as she could. Try as she might, Vennoa couldn’t repeat the rays of fire, so she shot firebolts at the.