Jasmine I was nervous the whole time the kids were gone to the meeting. Dante tried to distract me, but it wasn’t any help. I must have cleaned every surface twice before Ophelia, Luke, Rhonda, and Ryan finally walked through the door. “Where’s Iliana?” I asked. “We dropped her back home, ” Rhonda said. “She really doesn't like being out of the house.” “I understand, ” I said. “How did it go?” “We met the King himself, ” Rhonda said excitedly. “He was impressed with my ability to make a potion strong enough to contain Oren.” “Well that’s not an easy feat, ” I said smiling at her. “He gave me this, ” Ophelia said and pulled out a beautiful green gem from her shirt. “Sorry, I didn’t have any pockets. When the time comes for Oren to attack us, I smash this, and we have a fairy army

