Maghnus turned and did something that drove Sarrone out of the air to land hard onto the side of one of the mountains. Pae couldn't watch any more and...looked back at Little then down into the tunnel. "Little, run me back to your cave, please. There's only one way to help them. I need to get 'The Dragon's Heart'." But that's mother's special magic thing." Little if I use it to help Sarrone it will end the battle and your mother will be safe again. Please."He looked at her then out the entrance. Now we all know the saying “Never bring a knife to a gun fight” and I was just about to draw my pistol when I saw two enormous hands come up on the outside of these two punks heads and slam them together with an audible crack. The two dropped like they had been pole-axed and the SgtMaj picked the pair up, one in each hand, and deposited them on the central median. Lightly dusting his hands he came back and in his deep baritone voice said “Shall we go, I’m starving.” Faith asked “Isn’t that. ”“So what do you think she’ll do?” Jessica asked.Kara was quiet for a moment, then said, “If I had to guess, she’ll be celibate for a long time. Maybe even forever.”Katy came into the kitchen where we had been talking and drinking coffee.“I have everything in my car,” she said.“Are you sure this is the right thing to do?” I asked a final time.She nodded, “I need a change. I probably should have done this when I left Kenneth. If I need them, my family and some old friends are in Boston. It’s not. Or any water at all, damn near. I'm sure a nineteenth century explorer or a Native American shaman or botany professor could scare up some agua by slicing open one of these plants or digging a hole or sucking the blood from a gila monster, but I'm none of these things. I'm an amateur hiker-- and a stupid one, at that, judging from my predicament.Spring break in Arizona had sounded like such a great idea. Chicago was still getting flurries, and going home to Michigan didn't seem much better,.