Chapter 35: Lisa

"I want to fight as well," Tia told me.

"Sure. Let’s train together, then."

"But I am not strong like you people." "I can’t even turn when I want to."

"You’ll get there, don’t worry." I assured her.

"Yes, and when I do, I am going to write a book called Warewolf’s Guide to Turning at Will."

"I love him."

"You mean, my bro?"

"No, silly, Douglus Adams."

"And Marc?"

"And they said you were only a child?" I teased her.

Tia and I were in the kitchen cooking. Ash and Mom were still planning something and wouldn’t tell us what it was. I looked at Marc, outside the window, training in the garden.

"I want to be a physicist too. We were just beginning to learn advanced calculas when Marc snuck me out of my board and," she was quiet now.

"Must have been difficult to spend a year in the basement." I asked her. Mom had told me what happened to her parents. I didn’t want to pry. But to think a child had to go through such a trauma I couldn’t even begin to imagine the agony Marc was in.

"It wasn’t g