Let's Make a Deal

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Gwen Page, State Representative, Senatorial candidate and Georgetown University alumnae, comes to Dr. Juliana Moorhouse with a problem — it seems that twenty years ago, as a senior cramming for final exams, she had mistaken a fellow student's offer to ensure for her 'a life of unqualified success' in exchange for her first-born child on his or her sixteenth birthday, as a joke. Only now she's convinced it was no joke — her only real opponent in the election just dropped dead of a heart attack during a genteel debate, and in the ensuing confusion, Gwen glimpsed Susie Garlock in the crowd, looking not a day older than she had twenty years ago. And Gwen's son Tony will be sixteen in only a few days time. Benny calls upon the services and occult expertise of his lawyer, Oliver Wendell Holmes, who informs them that the contract is indeed binding — services have been rendered, and therefore payment is due. However, Ollie is able to come up with a legal precedent, "Harold the Mongol's" prescription for breaking the contract. All Jonathan and Benny have to do is concoct a potion with ingredients like yak's bile and frog's tears, enlist the aid of allies of pure soul, find a sword encrusted with rubies and emeralds, and, wearing just the right suit of chain mail, use the sword to ... slay a dragon.

Summary written by: M.D. Bloemker