"Us?" No, the frost giant behind you. Yes, you! Do you have any idea whatbuilding this is?" Um..." Alyssa twirled her hair. "It's, like, supposed to b...e totallyabandoned. We were gonna, like, go inside to make out and stuff. But itlooks super duper busy."The man rolled his eyes. "Fucking hades. Get the hell out of here before Itag you for trespassing!"As they turned away, the second coveralls guy mumbled, "should we detainthem or anything?" I'm not detaining two kids for..." and then they were. "That blouse lookswonderful!" It's just been a long day," I told her.Lisa nodded. Perhaps she wasn't convinced."Come in here, Bethany!" Carrie called."Is a wine cooler O.K.?" Lisa asked."Please," I said. I listened to my voice as I said this. For somereason, I had turned that one-syllable word, "please", into a two-syllable that sounded like a question, modifying a simple statementexpressing my wishes into a passive pleading. I looked down at the flatfront of my slacks and sighed."Bethany!". But let’s look at those rules."Her friends, I was sure, had finally caught on that there was more to this constructed example that Cordelia was willing to let on. I made sure to keep my eyes away from them."What are the rules there for? To protect the student from being exploited by her teacher? That doesn’t apply in our example. All the power lies with the student."She brushed back her hair and I could see her youthful cheeks flaming with excitement. Her eyes twinkled while she looked at her. Motionless between sky and sea, Zax was sweating profusely. ‘Dark Titan Storm!’ He shouted in his sea of consciousness, driven by immense fear.In but a blink of an eye, his physique swelled and darkened, exuded indomitable air, filling him with exalted power, yet his guts told him that it was not enough!Seeing his terrific transformation, the several third realm experts felt their hearts tightening. They all could tell that this change was brought by utilization of an attribute worldly energy,.