?Come on, now,? he said. ?Get your birthday butt over my lap.?My stomach was full of butterflies and the anticipation was driving me absolutely wild. ...All at once I was nervous, excited, and incredibly ready. I wasted no time and nearly fell onto Syd’s huge lap.I heard N laugh at my eagerness and I ignored him. N will never totally understand the feelings a good masochist has when she’s about to be spanked, hard, by a man like Syd. He doesn’t have to understand; all he has to know is that I. “Did you build things with those sets? Things the instructions didn’t suggest?”I nodded. “The sets were for a boat and a car, and I tried to build a robot out of them.”He nodded. “Now, if you’d had more Legos, you could have built different kinds of robots, or bigger robots, right?”I frowned and nodded. “Yes.”“It’s the same principle with Magic,” He said. “Worrying about how a spell penetrates your apartment isn’t important because there are a lot of different ways to build a spell like. . . what have I found . . ."I spent a sleepless night rolling about, thinking about what hadtranspired. It seemed as if morning would never come, but when itfinally did, I was more than ready to go find somebody that couldhelp me understand what I had found. Again in my version ofSpanish, I tried to ask the old man at the front desk whether or nothe knew anybody around that was familiar with Mayan history,beliefs, and who might be able to do some translating for me. Atfirst, I didn't think. One of the tasks I have for you is to find a ballet company that is willing to play a two or three night engagement here.”“The Ballet!” he exclaimed, excited enough that I thought he’d pee his pants, “I adore the Ballet, and there is a troupe in Austin. I’ll contact them first thing Monday morning.”I smiled at his enthusiasm and continued my train of thought.“I’d also like to have a talent night where local amateurs audition for you, and if they are good enough, we’ll let them perform on stage..