'Yes' does not hurt my brain." "Uh, yes," said Paul, who was blushing so hard it looked like hehad a sunburn. A bad sunburn. "Why? No!" he c...rrected, even though it hurt his head. "You wantto do it because... because you want to be a girl?" Tom guessed. "I dunno," said Paul, and he was going to explain when Tom held uphis hand. "That's good. Now..." They walked down the stairs to the Trough, known to schoolofficials and parents as the dorm cafeteria. Tom was having a. I was reluctant to tell her that though. Maybe I was afraid to tell her that she could have unbelievable power over me with this thing on.She surprised me again when she asked about the keys. She asked how many there were. I thought about telling her there was only one, when in fact there were two. My mistake was to tell her the truth that there were indeed two."Let me see them."So I gave them to her to look at and she said "Thanks". She quickly put both of them into her pocket. With a shocked. "Dave said, "Just a second." He looked at Sarah and asked, "Hilary wants to know if we would like to go to her concert on Friday?"Sarah's head was bobbing up and down as she gasped, "Yes, Rose wanted to go but the tickets sold out too quickly. Can she come as well?"Dave spoke back into the phone, "We would love to go. Can we get an extra ticket for one of Sarah's friends?"Hilary chuckled, "No problem. I will have five tickets with backstage passes waiting for you at the concert hall. If you. You met her just a few weeks prior, skulking around a seedy tavern in town, dipping her fingers into people's pockets. You'd watched her intently as she made herself a small fortune in loose copper coins lifted from stranger's purses. That is, until she tried the same thing with Mad Maldar. That did not go her way.Mad Maldar was the town's local, totally insane, alcoholic wizard. He was an ex adventurer who had lost his entire party in a dungeon some thirty years ago and had been drowning his.