Suddenly the candles began to flicker; an unnatural wind blowing all of the flames anti-clockwise, the points of light stretching like live things, re...aching across to their neighbours in defiance of normal physics.As she closed the book, and placed it carefully in the now swirling pentagram, all five candles exploded in unison, a brilliant flash of unlikely white light, and in the dimness of the remaining candles flickering from the rough walls, the wax dissolved in quivering pools, and as she. " Her face went solemn on me."Master!" This wasn't Pauline's voice but a variation of Slaves' "My life is dedicated to serving my assigned master — you are my reason for living, It is impossible for me not to obey you."I smiled at the girl, "I do understand that, I was just trying to be funny. But now that you're here what is your name?"The eyes of the girl lit up, "My name is Felicity, and I am here to guide you if there is any problems or if your commands are not understood." Thank you. " What do you know about the canyon, Jen?" Just some basics without going back to my notes. It seems that Palo Duro is the second largest canyon in the United States; only the Grand Canyon is larger. The canyon is some one-hundred-twenty miles long, twenty miles wide, and eight-hundred feet deep. It has a long history of occupation from the cave man to the native Americans and buffalo, to the ranch of Charles Goodnight, and finally to the state park that it is today." That's very good, Jen. Not. "She took my hand from her breast and kissed the palm gently."You've no idea what that does for me darling, now let's attack that garden."I kept my back to her as we put our robes back on and then went through into my own bedroom where I dressed in jeans and tee shirt."Snap," she giggled as we met again in the kitchen, she'd dressed exactly as I had, but her tee shirt looked a damn sight better than mine.We had a quick cup of tea and a slice of toast while reading through the work roster left.
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