"Holly Lisle - Minerva Wakes" - читать интересную книгу автора (Lisle Holly)

WeU, fighting with a dragon in the supermarket ewer a
box of cereal no one in my house likes is definitely stupid.
And probably crazy. So is sitting in the aisle, waiting to get

run over by a erased shopper.

She got up, dusted off the back of her slacks, and began

shoving the cart toward the dairy section.

But, delightful as a stay in a sanitarium would probably
be ... we don't haw the time or the money for me to lose

my mind this month.

She took a deep breath, and let it out slowly-
You're going to have to he okay, Minerva, she told herself.

fou don't have any choice.

The checkout lines stretched endlessly. The weather serv-
ice was calling for four inches of snow and freezing rain hy
morning. They might be wrong; they were often enough,
after all. But everyone in town was stocking up on staples,
just in case. Checkout line camaraderie was high. Neighbors
and strangers alike chatted about the impending storm,
about their snow tires or newly bought tire chains, about
their lads and their kids' sleds that would probably only get
one use this winter. Minerva submerged herself in the chat-
ter and felt better.
Outside, pushing the cart across the parking lot, freezing
as the wet, cold wind bit through her sid jacket and gabar-
dine slacks, Minerva managed to put die dragon incident out

of her mind-

Jamie is having a spelling test tomorrowтАФfifty words.

Did we have fifty words at a time in fourth grad^? J can't

remember.

She shoved paper bags into die back of the station wagon,

wedging them in against each other so they wouldn't tip and
dump groceries all over the car.

And work is going to he heU tomorrow. The visit hy Joint
Commission means a ton of extra paperwork. Cod, hut I