She also had a silvery plastic balloon that Harv had made her in the M.C. 
All the air had gone out of it. She reckoned it would make a nice shield like 
she had once seen on the arm of a knight in one of Harv's ractives. She sat in 
the corner of the room on her mattress with Dinosaur and Purple in front of 
her, and Duck and Peter behind her, and waited, clutching her magic wand and 
her shield.