I felt comforted by their presence and slowly nodded.Don't ask me why but I went home with them that afternoon. I remember sitting in the back of the ...car. Listening to them discuss how they had swapped bodies. They also had the radio on which spoke of this happening all over the world. At one point my Daddy turned around and asked me if I was still there little girl. I nodded not wanting to be cast away from them. Needing to feel their love and protection.Did I say Daddy before? I guess I did.. All of them hurt her. All of them became her victims.?I know. And you can tell me or you don?t have to. That?s fine.? Nadiawas speaking slowly, trying to soothe a rabid beast. ?I just want you toknow that I?m here. I?m still on the other end of this phone, and thisis where I will stay. I will stay here with you as long as you want me.??As long as I?m a good girl,? spat Penny.?No,? said Nadia. She was resolute. ?I want Penny. If that means youcome with baggage and wounds and complications, I?ll. "Is it really? The King had voluntarily abdicated and thus thrown himselfat my mercy," she said, "I may have spoken misleadingly about the contentof the constitution, but who should know the constitution better than theKing?"I looked at the former King Philip - for a moment our eyes met and as if toapologize for falling so stupidly in his trap, it was him that looked atthe floor, not me."Read this document, please," she said, handing me a piece of formallystamped paper, "I don't want you to. I was really bored and suddenly had to pee. So I asked my mom if I could go to the restroom. She wasn't crazy about it but knew I was bored and that they'd have to cross the store to find the bathrooms, so she let me go and told me to meet them at the clothing store at the east end they'd be ending up in an hour or so. I was a bit nervous because I wasn't expecting her to say an hour and hadn't really been given that kind of time by myself at a mall before. But anyway, I went across the store.