Another gift was that Queen Fleur told him the dais in the crystal cavern he visited, was like the one beside his tree and that he could use them to j...ump to and from the crystal room when he did wish to visit Silver or play in the workshop. Amazingly, she even knew the spells.She did tell him to plant a lot of Quaz crystals around the dais and near his tree to pump up its charge so he could jump without exhausting himself. It would be easier going back because he could pull magic from the. "Oh, yes, sorry. I'm Arnold Winslow, Andy's father."Sammi felt ambivalent. She had wanted to meet Andy's family, but she didn't understand why he was calling.Again, Arnold sighed. "Sammi, I'm calling about Andy. I'm afraid... " He sniffed. "Andy passed away the day after Christmas."Sammi's stomach sank."I'm not sure if he told you that he was epileptic. He had a grand mal seizure and choked on his own tongue. He hadn't had any problems in years and we all went out to do some shopping while he. Their engagement party was an afternoon affair starting at 5:00 pm and held at a local Holiday Inn.At the time, my wife Nora and I had been married for seventeen years. We had two children aged sixteen and thirteen, and we both worked. Our marriage and sex life were about average with the usual Friday and Saturday night standard action… At the time we were just getting by financially, so we didn’t go out too often so when we got invited to parties and weddings, we made it our business to have a. He was just an average looking guy, pretty nondescript really. About 5'9" I'd say, maybe 160 lbs. Kinda wiry with hair a little too long. He had on rumpled clothes, cotton trousers and a short sleeved button down shirt. A real nobody.So I walked right up to him and told him flat out, "That's my notebook. I want it back, now!"He chuckled, flipping the cover over and looking up at me, squinting into the sun as he did so. He gave me a kind of a cockeyed smile. Whoever he was, he had an easy-going.