At one point, I confronted him about his attitude but before he answered, his new wife, Sandy, strode in the kitchen to fend me off. It turned out she... was a Mind Mage with a green mark that made her part of House Nickelson. She believed that Savannah was unworthy of the boys. So she had convinced Nathan of it and was going to try to convince me. However, when my shields blocked her attempts and I told her about my status as a new House Lord, she paled and begged forgiveness. I wasn't sure what. . y'know, that are the result of some sort of LSD flashback or something... y'know, that are frankly preposterous... y'know, given the fact that I - Never! Ever! - messed around with that sort of shit in the first friggin' place... y'know, 'casue I knew - Right from the get go! - that messing around with that sort of crap could only lead to trouble..." Just then, just as his frantic tirade was beginning to pick up the pace, it dawned Paul that the idiosyncrasies revolving around the re-sizing. No, she needed something thatwould teach him once and for all to respect others and never bullyanybody ever again. Her eyes fell on the pink dress that no longer fither that she was wearing that day when he pushed her down in the mud.She smiled. Billy the Bully Hollister would have the worst day if hislife if he messed with her again.She put the dress and some other old clothes of hers into a bag andshoved it into her pack. The next day, as she was making her way to thelibrary at lunch, Billy. "Room service," came the routine call.I was so used to hearing that one that I just reflexively walked over to open up. And Susan was nearly as slow, it wasn't until I had my hand on the knob that she suddenly piped up, "Larry, you didn't order yet!"No, I hadn't; but by that time I already had the door half open. And it was way too late to stop now, because I could see something I really hadn't wanted to see.The good news was that it wasn't Walter, going by Susan's description of him. The bad.