Tell me how this feels. I leaned forward to watch my wifes face closer. I didnt know what this woman was up to but Suzis body was certainly prepared f...r something. nnnnggggggg! Suzi moaned around the tube. She arched her back and tensed every muscle in her legs and belly. The woman was shocking her, though I couldnt tell where. Her legs started to shake as the current went through her. Then, two of the others started snapping the rubber bands up and down her calves. She started screaming then,. After all these years something awoke in her nearly forgotten since herdays as an apprentice: curiosity.Was it really the gem? She had to find out. A quick spell later andonce again she was made out of flesh. The undoing of the fusing of thegem from her took longer than she had thought. For a moment it feltstrange to be without it. Then she stared at the gem in her hand. Hadit really been the gem that had doomed her? Or was it what saved her?Her musing was broken by faint steps coming up the. Then more seriously he added, “But I still want to know. Who? And why?”“My sister,” Shelly replied, rubbing the worn stone top of the table. Then she reached across the table, grasped his hand in hers, looked him in the eyes, and said sadly, “Guilt.”“Guilt?” Harold asked. “She wasn’t part of the mob.”“No,” Shelly said softly, “But she was the witch in the family, not me. The crowd knew someone had been celebrating the Witches’ Sabbath in the river bottoms on Halloween for the past couple of. Giving Adrienne a stern look, I barked in a command tone, “Adrienne, STOP!”To even MY surprise, she immediately stopped flailing. I used her wrists to rotate her toward the cabin’s front door, letting go of them and instead clamping my right hand onto her shoulder like a police officer escorting a cuffed prisoner. “Inside. NOW.”Though she was physically compliant, Adrienne still stared daggers of hatred at me, at least until she stared daggers of hatred at Dawn. But she walked ahead of me while.