Because her fear was suddenly localized,she could choose to ignore it. The scar throbbed when she auditioned for a scholaship to attent an inner-city ballet school,it stung when she took the SAT examinations,and it burned like fire when she secretly applied to Stanford. Punpkin was no longer immobilized by fear but rater motivated by the irksome pain in her leg. And so she was drawn to Harley because the attraction frighttened her.