Ama and Amanda spend the morning working on shields. Amanda is excited to move away from the subject of James and keep her mind and body busy. It is a simple concept, but visualizing a physical shield was a little harder than she thinks. She can’t get the shape as big as Ama’s and it is starting to frustrate her. She tried for her tenth time and growls out the breath she was holding as her small shield fades away. “All right I think it’s time to break for lunch,” Ama says placing her hand on Amanda’s shoulder. She turns and calls out to Jasmine and Stacey. Stacey has finally gotten to a standing position on her small mounds of dirt and Ama’s voice makes her drop her concentration causing her to topple over with a small yelp. Amanda and Ama laugh as they make their way over to the girls a

