My charisma only works on my enemies, remember?” Axel wasn’t so sure.Hardening their wills, they moved further into the miasma.Inside the miasma, ...the world looked as if it were covered in a purple filter. It was sickly and moved like mist. Even the smell made Axel want to puke. It felt evil.It was worse for Rayner. He clutched himself, shivering in fear. Axel put his hand on Rayner’s shoulder, attempting to reassure him. Rayner didn’t respond. “Hey man it’s OK, we got this.” No reaction.. " Of course. I should have remembered." She looked coyly in my direction. "That was another nice compliment. You could seduce a girl with those words you know." I had little to say.In the second half the music took on a different air, stirring with marches like 'Liberty Bell' by Sousa, and everyone clapping along with the rousing refrain. Then towards the end we had 'Jerusalem' and 'Pomp and Circumstance No. 1'. It is a tradition that the words by Benson, 'Land of Hope and Glory', are only sung. It was impressive how quickly they responded. There was a city truck there within fifteen minutes to shut off the valve. I arrived a few minutes later and waded around in the icy cold water looking for the break. It turned out to be one of the more common causes for a pipe rupture; nobody had unhooked the garden hose from the outside spigot. There was a two-inch split in the old black pipe just inside the wall of the foundation.As I continued to look around the place, I could see that there was. For a boy of about 12 years of age, he was extremely tall, probably close to six feet and due to the near starvation diet forced on him by his keeper, cadaverously thin. A cage of iron bars was the place he called his home and the place of his ultimate humiliation. He traveled with a band of gypsies as the main attraction in their carnival's sideshow. His keeper, a cruel, dark and ugly man named, Jaevert, had decided to call him, "The Devil's Child." They placed his deformity on display and.