None of the local animal species was very large. There was something that looked like an oversized rabbit that did not burrow, but made nests inside p...otective prickly bushes. There was a small thing like a rodent, only it preferred to scamper up the small trees and make nests amongst the smaller branches. While the "rabbit" animals proved good eating, no attempt was made to eat the small rodents: it would be too much bother for little meat. These were discovered to be gregarious by nature, and. “I’d figured out it wasn’t the tool-making that killed great-grandmother, but the scrying.”“Mari was your great-grandmother?” Wayne asked.“Well, there’s a couple more greats in there,” Lissa answered. “But like you inherited your uncle’s Book of Shadows, I inherited Mari’s.”“That brings us to tonight,” Judith said. “For such a bunch of fuck-ups, we seemed to have come out okay. Are you all right, sweetie?” Wayne hugged Judith to him.“Yeah. I still need to get used to all this, though. I’ve only. I had been aware of this large house on the outskirts of town that had not been sold in almost a year. And to my knowledge an agent hasn't even shown it in months. It was a nice house, and very secluded. The next nearest house was nearly a mile away. This was going to be where I bound myself. Since I had the code to the Lock Box on the door getting in would not be a problem and I was sure that no one would come by and catch me in the act. I went to the house around 11:00 p.m. Sunday evening and. No hesitation, no delay, the boy sank his knife into the man’s chest, and started stabbing. And stabbing, until he was soaked in blood, and the thief was dead twice over.Darian looked over his shoulder to see his younger self drown in red. No glow to his eyes, just a calmness, comfortableness, with the butchery. His family looked on, and stared with wide eyes, shivering bodies huddled together in the corner. Lukas stepped out for him, but his father pulled him back.His parents were afraid of.