<div class="floatleft">(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/76b7/x5nx8e3wrte3v7y6g.jpg)<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><div align="center"><strong> <span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Circe</span></strong></div></div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 11pt;">This is good!  I mean <span class="bbc_u">if</span> it’s really magic.  I’m in on that!<br/><br/>But Chloe is in the Chicken Little camp of the sky is falling.  I’m not even so sure it’s magic.  What we have so far is that a long dead family member—great, great, lots of great was named Chloe.  It’s good that Mike offers a hug to settle her down.  Chloe’s knuckles will thank him later.<br/><br/>Can one argue with a crazy person?  Answer: No.  But I’m not going to commit to the idea of Chloe being wacked out.  Yet.  Maybe find a thread of calmness, walk her off the ledge and have some fun with the book.  I guess the card game is taking second fiddle to the book.  (<em>OMG!  OMG!  The Cards Against Humanity are glowing.  They’re pissed at the book.  They’re possessed!!!!  My adoptive mothers are part of humanity.  OMG!!! </em>—no, not that, save humor for later when she calms down).<br/><br/>So what’s a rational idea?  “First off, there’s good and bad magic.”  I suppose there’s all sorts of variations, but no need to get into parsing all the possibilities.  “Second, the book can always be closed.  Open.  Shut.  Open. Shut.”  That seems a slightly hypnotic chant but calming.  I decide not to go into <em>and I’m sure your relative was really nice so what’s to worry?</em>—could’ve been a bitch or bad witch.  <br/><br/>I’ve come up with a first and second.  Probably should be a few more.  Wizard of Oz—there was the good Princess and that turned out alright, happily ever after.  Of course, there’s the horrifying episode in Ghostbusters where the huge marshmallow man appears from an errant thought.  <br/><br/>I look at Mike.  He has offered a nice comforting hug.  He’ll be reason three.  “We’ve got Mike.”  I don’t even tease him, jsut hope he doesn’t over-inflate ego-wise.  “Mike’s here.  He won’t let anything happen.”<br/><br/>If everything goes south, I can suggest that we decorate the holiday cookies.  But that will be the ace in the hole.<br/></span>