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thinking?"
    "You′re not going to let it slide are you? OK, point made. I judged based on my experiences, which are limited."
    He pondered while they pulled into the parking lot. "My first thought is that I haven′t gone up against women who are competitive before, but I have; women in Dressage are very competitive. I just haven′t directly, physically competed against them."
    She pulled into a parking spot. "So you thought you′d come here and take it easy on us little old girls." She turned off the Jeep.
    He nodded. "Yup, you′re right. I came across as a misogynist, didn′t I?"
    "A misogynist hates women. I think the words you′re looking for are male chauvinist." She laughed, punched him in the shoulder, and said, "Isn′t personal revelation healthy and inspiring?"
    He got out of the car rubbing his shoulder. As they walked toward the lab, he asked, "What are you, a psych major?"
    "I started that way, and then switched to physics. Now I think I′ll double major. I want to understand magic better, but I also want to know how it makes people think and react to it."
    He opened the lab door for her. "How magic makes people think? Magic doesn′t make people think, they already think. Magic is something they do."
    "Thought processes develop as people change. Magic causes change. What if you suddenly give an ordinary person a great deal of power; will that make their value systems different? If you begin persecuting someone; what changes will that cause?" She said as she entered ahead of him.
    "Hmmm. I never thought of it."
    "I do. Like why would a guy open a door for a girl, when he thinks girls are beating the hell out of him?"
    Sig stopped and looked back at the door as it clicked shut, rolled his eyes at the ceiling, and then took quick steps to catch up to her. "So you′re going to be a physicist who screws with peoples′ heads."
    "Yeah, now that you put it that way, it sounds like fun." She chuckled. "Well you′re here." She motioned at the door as she walked past. "I′ve got a different assignment today."
    Sig stopped and watched her walk away. It was a nice walk, maybe even a great walk. "Thanks for the ride."
    She flipped her golden flame-colored hair out of the way, as she turned her head with a smile over her shoulder and said, "No prob."
    She′s smart and attractive, a nice combination if he could endure the mind games.

 
    Fiona sat across the kitchen island and shook her finger at Meredith. "You are a witch."
    Frowning she said, "Don′t call me that."
    "Or what, you′ll sic your Battle Wizard son on me? You are what you are."
    She shook her head and shrugged. "Think what you want."
    "I didn′t say bitch. I said witch."
    Meredith waved her hand dismissively. "I can live with bitch. There are times I′ve called myself that."
    "Well I say you′re a witch."
    Through clenched teeth, Meredith asked, "Who are you to call me that?′
    Fiona smiled at her. "I′m a practicing, card carrying, full blooded witch from a long line of witches on both sides of the English channel. I′ve trained more witches like you than I care to count." She paused a moment before continuing, "And I must admit, I can also be a royal bitch at times, when I don′t get my way, or my chocolate."
    Meredith had to laugh at that, despite the fact that what she had learned from Fiona about the changed world and her own place in it made her extremely uncomfortable.
    Fiona stood, arched her eyebrows, and stretched to her full five-feet-nine-and-a-half inches, tugged the sash of her robe snug, and looked down her nose at Meredith. "Don′t laugh at the power of chocolate! Everyone knows 'Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog, adder's fork and blindworm′s sting, lizard's leg and howlet's wing.′— whatever the hell a howlet is—but the real secret to a potion is chocolate."
    "You put chocolate in the potion?"
    "Oh hell no! In the witch! Put chocolate in the potion? What a waste of good chocolate."
    Meredith