So Tract wnt to bed and woke up the next morning.She remembered the miracle of the previous night
and rushed over to her little lab bench.
To her amazement,the white cloth once again only sported a quarter inch diameter drop of red blood.
Yet beneath it lay a tiny film of clear water.
She checked the microscope and discovered the much smaller drop of liquid under the lens
only contained human red blood cells.
It was as if the dragonish blood had shed excess mass and volume as it returned to its original human state.
She then turned on the TV and the nighmare of a year ago returned.
Police in Berkley had arrested two guys on campus who were suspected of raping
campus girls.
One of the suspects was one of the SOB's who'd raped her.Both suspects were spoiled
rich kids of Silicon Valley billionaires.
They'd been released on bail.
Tracy,troubled,drifted to the Mall and discovered the Spells R Us storefront
now sported a "For Lease " sign.
The windows were dusty and as Tracy looked inside,it looked like the space had been
vacant for years,ever since the 2008 Meltdown.
There was no sign of the dragon statue inside.
It was as if Spells R Us had never been there.
That troubled Tracy even more.
She rushed home and in between studies,tried to restart the transformation
in that drop of human red blood in the cloth.
No go.
That night she was horrified to turn on the TV and discover that charges against
the two Berkley rapist suspects had been dropped.
It seems they hadn't been read their rights apon arrest and Tracy felt
her insides twist as the camera showed the
two blonde haired All Mericana Boys depart,free.
It was a miserable remainder of a week for Tracy,and she
tossed and turned as she spent her nights reliving her rape.
Then came late night Sunday and Tracy had just returned from another pointless
night with the three giggling airheads.
She'd turned on the lights,locked and bolted the five locks and gone into her
dark livingroom to watch the TV.
There was something wrong with the shadows,and Tracy slowly turned around,to find the
Dragons Eye statue hulking in a dark corner of the room,
beckoning...