| I was five or six years younger than Opal, and Aunt Jenny hoped it would 'spiritualize' me to play with her. |
| This particular form of Opal is known as geyserite, and it is often differently colored by different ingredients. |
| Opal stepped farther into the room, his boots making dull thumps across the rugged floor. |
| In the kitchen, the O'Dwyers eschewed tiled splashbacks in favour of Opal glass. |
| Opal laughed again and let loose a cannonade of bullets, all steel-tipped for the armor of the truck, and stood his ground as the truck continued to slew towards him. |
| He looked around the library in an exaggerative manner, just to make sure no one was looking and then gestured with his fingers telling Opal to come closer. |
