The ball play became increasingly intricate until Cindy could toss the balls with any combination of “Hands” while also carrying on a decent conversation. Her awareness of what and where her phasmanus was, became ever more natural and without thought. As with riding a bicycle, the less you think about it the better off you are.

Cindy was shown the basics of how to wish things into existence and then with her phasmanus, reach into the other place and pull it out. This starts with little things and then once you get better it is possible to do bigger things.

They also showed her how you opened the door for porting and then sort of “pulled” it over you. She was also told that she would be punished if she used this before she was properly schooled and trained. They just wanted her to know how in case of an emergency. If for some reason she needed to escape something, say a fire, she was to only port to the main coven room and then after putting out a call to her Mother and or Jaclyn, she was to go to this room. They would come here to her and then decide if something needed “fixing”.

By coming here, time would stop and things would be easier to repair. On about the fourth day, confident that she would be able to go to school without reeking havoc on all, she was allowed to leave the room. It was still early afternoon and she was allowed to go to a friend’s for a little while and socialize as was her normal pre-passing habit.

It felt strange, being with someone that she knew so well and realizing that they no longer actually knew her at all. She visited and they talked but Cindy could already feel a distance growing, even between her and this person who had been her best friend. When she got home, her Mom and Dad were waiting for her in the living room.

“How did it go Princess?” Her Daddy asked.

Sitting on the edge of the couch she answered, “OK I guess, it felt sort of strange…I don’t know, like somehow I was now a lot older and such.”

Her Mom came over and sat beside her. “It is hard. Isn’t it? The secrets and the new life that you can’t share…it makes walls doesn’t it?”

“Is it always that way?”

“Yeah, pretty much so, I have known a few witches that manage to keep a few of the very closest of their fragilis friends but to tell you the truth it is rare and usually not worth it. You will live in a world that they will never see or understand. They won’t understand why you do so many things that you do and there will always be so much of your life that they can’t be a part of that they can only be sort of pals and not close.”

“It is so easy if you aren’t careful, to turn them into almost pets. You can control their thoughts and help them in so many ways that the constant temptation is abrasive. That is why, except for little things, you have to bring any desires you might have to do something to or in the fragilis world to your coven where others who have no attachment can decide. If a coven goes too far it can be broke up and that is about the most horrible thing that can happen so even if you want to do something big, you will think hard before you grant a wish just to please a sister.”

Her Dad chimed in, “Even for a witchman it is the same, secrets are best kept between strangers and acquaintances and not between friends or lovers. When a boy is accepted into the witch world he knows that he can never be happy with a fragilis woman and let’s face it, chasing girls is what boys have most in common. A witchman no longer chases. He has to learn an entire new mind set and a whole new set of rules. Getting into a witch’s pants is easy; hooking up with the RIGHT witch is not. You have to PLEASE them where most fragilis men just want to fuck’em. Pretty soon we have if anything, even less in common with our old fragilis friends than the witches have with theirs.”

“Why is it so important to be with the RIGHT witch? I don’t understand.” Cindy asked.

“It is important that you be able to have an almost psychic connection with your mate. Her strength as a witch will be in part a direct reflection on your abilities to please and comfort her. Also a Witchman has no actual power of his own so his status will be a reflection of his wife’s power and status. It is a lot like it used to be for fragilis women before women’s lib. I was lucky, I met your Mom and it was as if there were no other witches out there for me. It also just so happened that she was then, and became even more so, one of the real powerful witches of her class; so I got a free ride.”

Sheryl laughed at this, “Don’t let him kid you Baby, he is a power house and every witch in my class was fighting over him. He was so busy he nearly didn’t have time for me until I was a junior.” I thought I was going to have to turn Elvira into a frog!!! She just wouldn’t quit.” Sheryl turned to Cindy, “She even came to our wedding and tried to seduce him before the ceremony and get him to go with her!!!”

“What happened?” Cindy asked.

“Pam happened!” Rick answered. “She came around the corner about the time El got me pinned to the wall and it was BAD! She read her the riot act froze her into a statue and called Louisa down on her head! Louisa was furious and Elvira attended the wedding but didn’t sit a single time.” He laughed softly, “Your Mom at first wasn’t sure that I hadn’t been a willing player in the little scene. She zapped me with a truth spell that took a week to wear down. Shit after the wedding I actually told your Grandmamma that she was a hottie and that I would love to be a lot closer to her! I thought she was going to choke! Pam saved me and explained what had happened. She even accepted a paddling for unnecessary roughness for it to keep me out of trouble. Witches are normally very discouraged from casting spells on other witches. As far as me, complete honesty is a dangerous thing and we had to do our honey moon in stasis seclusion until the effects wore off because I would answer ANY question with total honesty and in great detail I might add.”

“Stasis Seclusion???”

“Someplace like the resting room off of our little party place where you were earlier. Outside time stops while your time goes on.” Sheryl explained, “I took this opportunity to get to know your Father REALLY well.”

“Shit, she pealed me like and onion! By the time she was done and I was over the babbles she knew what I thought about every girl in our class and every secret thought I ever thought about having!” Rick exclaimed.

“Well you have to admit Dear, it did save me a lot of time getting to know you and what it was that you REALLY wanted to do to and with me and what I would and could do to you to make you happiest.” Sheryl grinned at Cindy, “He was sort of shy about what he liked, not like Jay.” Rick’s face was turning red and Sheryl grinned and kissed him. “See isn’t it cute, he still is shy and embarrasses easy. I think it is one of his most endearing qualities.”

“Well, enough about this!” Rick said gruffly, “I just want you to understand Cindy that even though at first you will feel sort of like you are losing all of your friends, it is only temporary. You won’t believe how fast the busy schedule at Witchy U will push people together. It is hard work for all of us but it is also the most fun you will ever have. The friends you make there will be forever and the coven sisters will become your true sisters.”

Her Mom added, “That is one reason why we only had you. As bad as it is loosing your fragilis friends, at least you won’t have to lose a sister as Jane will. A Witches real family is her coven. Her real sisters are the 12 with her in that coven. There is little room in your life for fragilis because they live life one day at a time and much of your life will be in some form of other time. Why get older any faster than you have too.”

“How long will I live?” Cindy asked slowly.

Sheryl smiled, “About a hundred years of fragilis time, the extra depends on what you do the rest of the time. We don’t keep up with that but I would say that the average is about three to one. Nearly all Witchy places have or are stasis enabled. Most parties will be in a stasis place. The Sweetest nipple is a zero time place. You can go there and party as long as you want and when you port out no time has passed. It take several witches to set up a stasis but once done many can use it. We can “borrow” a fragilis place for one second of time and stay there forever. The Sweetest nipple is actually a fragilis sex and bdsm club in Paris France that we “borrow” When you go there, you are not just going WHERE there, but WHEN there. It is only ours for one night and less than one minute total of fragilis time.” Sheryl patted Cindy on the cheek, Go and bathe and your Dad and I will be up in a little while to give you your enemas and tuck you in.”

Cindy started to say something about her Dad being there then realized that he was a Witchman, trained to give enemas to witches. “She got up and after kissing them both went and bathed.