I'm afraid that none of us has begun to grasp how profoundly our lives have been changed." There were murmurs of general agreement."I for one remain q...uite daunted," sighed Elizabeth. "I can tell off any number of issues that demand our understanding and agreement, even before we leave our pod and try to make sense of our lives in the community." You were right, of course," said Mandy. "We need to prevent hurting each other, and do our best to fix the problems if they do occur. I hope we can. 'So, ' I thought. 'How dead am I?'The answer to that question stumped me to the point that I put off opening my eyes and discovering who I was, this time.Besides...The quiet wasn't so silent that I was dead, so you might say that the quiet was loud enough, not to be silent ... or something ... you know ... like that.When I died as Carl, I died so fast, I never knew I was dead, until I woke up in Brian's body, which should have been dead, but lived with me inside ... at least until I died – like. The two of them came to see me about halfway through the afternoon, they knocked on door of my office, and I told them to take a seat.“What is it you wanted to see me about?” I asked.“Well ... I was wondering if it would be possible...” Sarah started to say. “It’s not that important, really, we just were hoping I could change my tutorial class, to be in your class.”“I guess we can do that,” I said. “Any reason why? Who’s you current tutor? Is there a problem with him?”“No, there’s no problem,. Okay... oh, hold this one," he said, handing one over to me. "And, those two, okay. There we are. I'll be keeping this stack," he said. "Dispar dimtere." he said, causing one stack to vanish. "And you can copy down the rest," he said. "But first, give me that page again," he said, taking back the one he handed me."Ah, here it is: The Alice Spell," he said. The picture had a stylized image similar to Disney's Alice In Wonderland, slightly more mature, with half of her face in the shadow of a.