"I'll stop and help you clean up on one condition." Name it — within reason." You need to answer one question; truthfully and completely." I think I... can do that." Mitch spun Tory around in his arms and looked in her eyes."Is everything okay? You didn't eat a lot at dinner and you were awfully quiet at the table." I was quiet? How could you notice? Everyone was talking at once it seemed!" I noticed. And, you haven't answered my question, yet. Is everything okay?" Yes." Tory reassured him with a. "What's that?" I asked."Ah. It's something like an English translation of the spell." he said. "And, like most of the spells I came up with then, it's a rhyme. Once you learn the Arcanan words, all you gotta do is remember the rhyme to know the order. Plus, as culture would suggest, rhymes have power. Even though those aren't the words you're saying, it links the meanings together in a way that you find special. That's what magic is all about, in a way."I took the paper from him and looked more. " He went to pack his gear.Later that night when Thomas came back to the hut he found a note on the door. It said, "Sweetheart, your father has gone to the other side of the island for two days. It is my special time of the month ... I am fertile. Go to the lagoon and take a bath and come back to me. We are going to spend the next two days making love, and hopefully, making babies."Thomas almost fell off the porch in his haste to get to the lagoon. He washed in record time and hurried back to. He explained that Horseshoe, the camp where he learned, used the Octoraro Creek for boating. It was 20 yards wide at the boat yard. The deep pool where scout canoed and rowed might have been a hundred yards long before the creek got too shallow.Chip's innate athleticism showed during the day. Frankly, he sucked at rowing in the morning. By the end of the day he did OK. Will did not plan to send him down to the boat yard, except in an emergency. He would be with me at the pool for the whole.