Where was my baby?! That man, the man who broke my water. HE had her! I sobbed my way to the showers and during my shower. Before I’d completely fin...ished, a master came in and drug me out naked and wet, by my hair. I didn’t dare scream out in pain. When he released my head my face fell onto a set of brown leather shoes with shiny laces. They smelled of shoe polish. I followed the shoes to the legs and then up to his face; the blond haired blued eye demon who bought my daughter!))***My extra. " She pointed to Noelle’s tentacle with her pen. "And like it or not, you’re one now too." She tapped her notebook and looked at Noelle expectantly."Wait, wait." Noelle held up her hands. "Like, magic stuff? I can do magic?" Of a sort." Helja nodded. "What’s your name?" Uh, Noelle."Helja jotted it down in her notebook. She glanced at Noelle, looking her up and down, then wrote some more. Noelle fidgeted a bit, feeling like she was failing an audition.“Forgive the paperwork,” Helja turned a page. ” And an observant man as well! I took heart. “Stand up straight so’s I can get a look at you.” When we didn’t move right away, he called “Earl!” and the huge dog leapt to his feet and bared his canines. We straightened like we’d been zapped with a cattle prod and stood to attention with our hands at our sides. He crossed his boney arms on his chest and examined us up and down, walking around to view us from all different angles like we were some strange, never-before-seen species of dung. " I'm not sure about all of them. I know four for sure: Bill and the three kids that ran summer crew with him last year, all graduating. The jury is still out on Tom, although I'm starting to bet he won't be back. Ben, well, wouldn't surprise me either way. And Jerry's not as healthy as he's trying to make me think he is. Bill is definitely going to be back to run Team 1 over the summer, but he said flat out it would be his last year." That's about what we were expecting," Scooter.