her hands are waving as fast as her lips are moving as she tells adam lin of all she did to help prissi stay out of trouble , of how she misses prissi , butfly ontheres joe with his new wings and his aletes body in that puffy stage of the newly fledged and the expression on joes face looks as tentative as his body as he stands alone at the edge of the pond staring into its waters , butfly , fly ontheres dr. smarkzy with a package tucked under his arm and he looks so old and frail and , he , too , as he makes his way along the path made of thousands of bricks , each with a graduates name pressed into the clay , looks tentative in both his walk and thoughts , but , flyand prissi veers north to lakeville , but before she even gets to the edge of the bissell campus , knowing the smug , self-assured look she will see on jack fflowers face , she turns back and she is so high , a klik high in the sky that from the ground she must look like no more than a smudgy dot and she is back and forth over the top of the building at the bottom of central park yet , as hard as she looks , even though she can see a gorgon and chimera and a massive centaur , there is no sight of an ancient man in a wheelchair , butfly onseventy blocks north she hovers over spicetown riding the thermals and watches and waits until her patience ends and she dives toward a window defending itself from the world with heavy , faded red damask curtain and shes through the glass and she has the simpering little evil doll man on the floor , butnofly , fly onto a parking lot that hasnt held a car in a half-century , high above the hudson , where darting , dipping , minnow fast , jiffy apithy brings the soccer ball up field and his bright round black face is split in two by brighter white teeth and he dribbles the ball from knee to knee and then to his scarred head and then squatting down he gathers his strength and just as all his opponents arrive he snaps upward and the ball sails into the air higher and improbably , impossibly higher and prissi reaches out and catches it and looks down and sees jiffy laughing and hears a metallic noise and looks up and sees a door open and a round-faced woman with ritual scars on her cheeks , looking at her .