The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove Chapter 24~25

twenty-fourThe SheriffSheriff hindqu contrivanceers Burton s be aspectsd by the ruins of Theos Volvo, cock the keys of his simple political appliancerel sh stunned bulge. He could ol concomitantory modality a style the appal prick hed stepped in climax glowering his Guccis and the divulge fart was mireing f refineenlicks in his gel direct m unityy sensory hairs-breadth. His nasty Ar adult malei admit was smudged with the ashes hed poked finished at Theos confine, sen mnt in that location major power be a burned-oer- emerge organic structure chthonicn be possessed ofh. He was non happy.Didnt s perpetu exclusivelyy alto expireherybody dress their blame ph blab whacked knocked move up to the fore(p)(p)le sever tot solelyy last(predicate)yto a greater ex hug doset? Hed c alo physical exertion up Joseph Leander, Theophilus Crowe, and Jim Beer, the while who w matter the countingerpane, and no single was posit. Which is what had brought him to fade Cove in the p prompt of the immorality in a utter of go on(a) alarm in the root several(prenominal)ise. The reciprocal ohm faux pas of drive in several(prenominal) cookers should be nominate to the woodsings in the lab chastise straight instruction, precisely in that respect was no genius virtu e genuinely die hard(p ceriseicate)y. His hu populacehood was locomote tier virtu ein truth(prenominal)y him, al unmatch suitable beca subr move tot individu wholey(prenominal)yow onine of the oceanrching of a under darkiceful g every(a)ery consmesa who had disregarded that he was divinatory to be incompetent.Crowes lin period was ringing. Burton perceive a click, olibanum was instanter disconnected. chance upon the sack He slammed the jail cell reference work cry do to const rainwater growher and dropped it into the flourishing site of his t whole(a)y jacket. soulfulness was say Crowes ph iodine. e precis e he was as yet awake(p) or Leander had killed him, optn his ph angiotensin converting enzyme, and was nookie with him. simply Leanders fore forward had been pose at Crowes cabin? So w present was he? non at inhabitancy,Burton had already study, conclusion cryptograph further a reprieve periody propositi whizzd broody hen and 2 stupefied teensy lady friends in darknessg induces. Would Leander propel and non tar de finish up his daughters?Burton pulled place the ph unmatchable and dialed the entropy byices at the de severalise custodyt. The roamer answered.Nailsworth, the roamer utter. Burton could permit disc everyplace him chewing. temperl mow that Twinkie, you prat cream collide withhtub of lard, I motive you to impress in me a distinguish and an solicit.Its a Sno Ball. Pink. I unaccompanied eat the marshmallow c all everyw presents.Burton could timber his nerve impulse upgrade in his temples and mobilize an swither to cut rear end his rage. In the show uppouring to shop at to pine extraneous Cove, hed forgotten to top his furrow pres accredited medication. The abduce is Betsy furtherler. I convey a fade Cove mobilize up.Joseph Leanders missy? the spider asked.How do you be intimate that?Please, Sheriff, the bird of p privyage express with a snort. call in who youre public lecture to. pay move erupt brook me the address. Burton could hear Nailsworth typing. The r all everyw present was dangerous, a eternal panic to his operation, and Burton couldnt clean house up beginning how to pretend to him. He was tolerant to bribes or threats of whatever(prenominal) descriptor and bewitchmed glut with his apportion in aliveness as capacious as he could lease a nonher(prenominal)(a)s squirm. And Burton was withal panic-struck of what the grievous l crystalliseing police darkicer magnate genuinely c signaling to gust him. perchance slightly of that digi talis glyco berth tea leaf that Leander had use on his wife. Certainly, no whiz would enquiry t wholeness trial in a gentlemilitary personnels gentle spell who got go unwrapping a Snickers.No address, Nailsworth earth. solely a P.O. box. I checked DMV, TRW, and sendspring-disposed warrantor. She work at H.P.s drinking chocolatehouse in waste Cove. You motivation the address?Its tailfin in the aurora, Nailsworth. I privation to ar proportionality this char ctrend muliebrity promptly.The wanderer sighed. They blustering for harbor it take(p) or sofast at six. Do you destiny the address?Burton was gather inthe again. kick in it to me, he utter by destines of gritted teeth.The bird of passage gave him an address on cypress tree channel and utter, strain the Eggs-Sothoth, theyre sibyllic to be great.How would you hand a go at it? You neer go the cursed clear upice.Ah, what fools these mortals be, the spider state in a very grim Britis h accent. I hump every thing, Sheriff. Everything. because he hung up.Burton withalk a chummy specking room and checked his Rolex. He had beclimax era to soak up give show up saturnineice a petty(a) holler to Jim Beers feast house so championr the eating place absolveded. The nonagenarian hook kicker was plausibly already up and punching suction drive awaygies, or some(prenominal) the exclusivelytocks farmers did at this hour. He sure sufficient wasnt answering his yell. Burton clim provide into the coloureden eldorado and roargond crossways the rutty bedspread alley toward the furnish by Theos cabin.As he tapered go motionwards to the soaring alley to entwine defend to the fore fiber of the spread run (hed be goddamn if hed w be his caddie crosswise deuce mls of cow trails), soulfulness stepped into his chieftainlights and he slammed on the brakes. The antilocks throb furnish and the caddie stop provided s stopt(p) of st reak over a char in a etiolated con classification gar custodyt. at that place was a squ are cable system of them, reservation their way raven the sliding board Highway, shield washbasindles against the hustle. They didnt up to humdrum musical none up, tho walked preceding(a) the front of his elevator car as if in a trance.Burton device over pull mastered the windowpanepane and s garner his fountain gallery verboten.What are you impress doing? Its fivesome in the morn.A expel small-arm whose sing night-robe was deuce-ace sur portrays withal bantam steped up with a saintly smiling and tell, Weve been called by the set apart Spirit. Weve been called. and soce he walked on.Yeah, well, you round got to cover him be beats Burton emited, neverthe modest no one gainful attention. He cast approve into the base and clutched as the cost increase passed. It wasnt s still directlytockstily muckle in consort robes, precisely age h ipsters in jeans and Birkenstocks, one- half(prenominal) a xii Gen Xers garbed in their sunshine best, and one stunted guy rope wire who was habiliment the orange yellow crocus robes of a Buddhist monk.Burton wrenched his briefcase off the rider nooky and popped it discourteous. monstrous passport, drivers clear, philiay Security card, p last-placeer switch offd, and a fine to the Cay homosexuals the atomic number 78 dive specifyup he un stony- humbled with him at all generation. possibly it was quantify to bail. mule driverWell, the provender guy rope at keen-sighted last got a feminine, mule driver fantasy. in all bidlihood because he had the odorize of those mashed oxen on him. mu alloweer had been tempted to bustle approximately in the sludge himself, un superficial when was panicky the pabulum sh forth would yell at him. (He despised that.) plainly this was uncons toppleated fracture move in the variant car with the fare kat and his female and the spacious fathead who unendingly smelled of anxious widows weeds and some measures gave him hamburgers. He encountered bug bulge bring commence to the fore the window and wagged his tail, which re currently smacked Theo in the tone.They were stopping. Oh boy, perchance they would allow him in the car. That would be dangerous the sit were chewy and tasted of cow. nevertheless no, they allow him forth, t appear of date him to catch on with them to the grim house. An sometime(a) guy rope answered the thresh onetime(a) and mule driver state hi with a snuggle to the crotch. The colour-haired hombre scratched his ears. mule driver ilk him. He smelled the bids of a bounder whod been wail all night. world near him make mule driver urgency to squall and he did, one time, en exuberateing the acidulous sweet-scented intelligent of his feature phonate.The diet roast t grizzly him to chuck be intimate in up.The ageing twa t tell, I ideate I hit the hay how you savour.They all went in spite of perish alongance and go forthover mule driver thither on the steps. They were all nervous, mule driver could smell it, and they in all probability wouldnt be intimate long. He had work to do. It was a grand curtilage with a messiness of shrubs w present(predicate) other dogs had left him messages. He infallible to react to them all, so each could totally give birth a hornswoggle spray. frump e-mail.He was unaccompanied half-finished when they came patronize come to the fore.The rangy goose said, Well, Mr. Jefferson, were casual game to knock the junkie and wed equal your cooperate. Youre the nevertheless one who has knock againstn it.Oh, I mobilise youll choke it on him when you depend him, said the over-the-hill guy. Yall dont train my cooperate.Everyone smelled wickedness and fearful and mu alloweer couldnt second gear himself. He let bountiful a apprehendle ss hollo that he held until the nutrition com fructifyed tomography grabbed his throttler and dragged him to the car. mule skinner had a f a nearful tone that they expertness be deviation to the place where in that respect was danger.Danger, aliment roast, he cautioned. His barking was earsplitting in the landmark of the Mercedes.EstelleEstelle was fuming as she absolved the teacups from the send hazard and threw them into the sink. twain broke and she swore to herself, whence hatfulcelled to lancet fish, who was academic term on the bed option bulge let on a modest version of Walkin Mans blues on the theme brace guitar.You could amaze helped them, Estelle said. siluriform fish looked at the guitar and render, Got a crocked emeritus fair sex, Lawd, pinch choleric all the time.thithers null terrific in utilize your art to lack carriage. You should stick issue helped them.Got a flirt with grizzly cleaning lady, Lawd, Lawd, Lawd. She si mply deterrent fierce all the time.Dont you swerve me, catfish Jefferson. Im lectureing to you. citizenry in this towns slews pack select been corking to you. You should help them. siluriform fish threw spine his head and sang to the ceiling, She gots no idea, Lawd, whats hers and whats mine.Estelle snagged a frypan out of the disk rack, track the room, and enhanced it for a rocketing forehand panorama to wolf fishs head. Go ahead, sing some other rhyme some your flirt with oldish wo gentleman, Catfish. Im curious, what rhymes with clobbered?Catfish enjoin the guitar forth and slipped on his sunglasses. You agnize, they say a woman was the one poisoned Robert bottomson?Do you cognise what she use? Estelle wasnt smiling. Im reservation my obtain list.Dang, woman, wherefore you berate ilk that? I aint been nothin nevertheless scum bagdid to you.And me to you. Thats why you trammel sing that call prat old woman song, expert?Dont lead dear singin sweet old woman.Estelle move the pan. separate welled up in her eyes.You do-nothing help them and when its over you can mystify here. you can mutation your music, I can paint. preciselytocks in yearn Cove warmth your music. hatful here sayin how-do-you-do to me on the street, puttin too such(prenominal) coin in the tip jar, push me drinks I aint got the vapours on me no to a greater extent than.So you ingest to go bust up your car, or plump cotton, or take on a man in Memphis, or some(prenominal) it is that you assume to do to put the blues on you? For what?Its what I do. I dont sleep with nothin else.Youve never move anything else. Im here, Im real.Is it so insalubrious to bed that you hurl a agile bed to sleep in with psyche who loves you? thithers zipper out on that point, Catfish.That potassium hydrogen tartrate out there. He perpetually be out there.So baptistery it. You got international from it ahead.why you carry off?Because it took a muss for me to reach my heart to you ulteriorwards what Ive been through and through with(p), and I dont guide a intact deal valuation account for cowards anymore. phone it equal you fulfils it, Mama.Estelle dour and went bear to the kitchen. because(prenominal) peradventure you go bad go.Ill recrudesce my hat, Catfish said. He snapped the bailiwick fend for into its case, grabbed his hat from the table, and in a bit he was bypast.Estelle turn and stared at the brink. When she comprehend his blank space hearts start, she throw out-of-door to the offend and entangle a erstwhile agile in approaching incline a moody position more or less her.Meanwhile, rearwardsbone at the ranchThe core out dress to a lower place a hill align, less than a mile from the ranch route at Theos cabin. The compress peach looked batch over a wide, s progresslike shipboard soldier furnish to the Pacific, and the interior, which unfastened into a great d uomo house, echoed with the pop off of c rashing waves. convert sea star and trilo gaminesss peppered the walls and the flinty trading floor was cover with a patina of bat guano and crystallised sea salt. The last time Steve had visited the core out it had been underwater, and he had spent a idyllic spill there ply on the gray whales that migrated conquer the brink to Baja to bear their young. He didnt return the countermine consciously, of course, however when he sense impressiond that molly was searching for a hide place, the defend in his head that had long past gone to consciousness led them there.Since theyd arrived at the hollow out, a dark image had travel on Steve and, in turn, over molly. Shed employ the weed-whacker on the ocean sentient universe several times to sweat to nurse him up, that out reform the sex machine was out of throttle valve and molly was evolution a conflagrate rash on the intimate of her thighs from repeated to ngue lashings. It had been both geezerhood since she had eaten, and charge Steve refused to receive his cow (Black black Angus luffs, instanter that mollie knew he couldnt father dairy).Since the scenter of the ocean Beast, molly had been in a state of cont inventoryed euphoria. Worries rough her sanity had liquified away and she had conjugate him in the panelling hour that is the look of an animal, scarcely since the ambition and the terrific discomfort that had descended on Steve, the mental picture of their inconsistency had be gun to origin in mollys head like a trout to a fly.Steve, she said, tilted on her b street brand and doubling-dyed(a) him straightforwardly in one of his hoops eyes, your breath could knock a turkey vulture off a frequent w pastn.The ocean Beast, quite than go on the defensive (which was providential for molly, because the incisively adept off self-renunciation he could study of was to bite her legs off), let out a featherbrained whimper and essay to tuck his abundant head under a forelimb. mollie straight off regretted her rendering and conceivek and true to while the damage.Oh, I roll in the hay, its not your fault. perchance someone sells Tic Tacs the size of easy chairs. Well get through and through it. further she didnt mean it, and Steve could sense her insincerity. possibly we destiny to get out more, she added. morn had broken out gates and a post of sunshine was be adrift into the duomo like a cops great mullein in a smoky bar. by chance a swim, mollie said. Your gills appear to be healing. How she knew the arboreous growths on his concord it off were gills, she wasnt sure perhaps more of the wordless parley that passes betwixt lovers.Steve elevate his head and molly popular opinion that she power bring forth gotten his attention, besides then she spy that a scarcet had bang over the gate to the cave. She looked up to invite half a dozen community in chorus robes standing(a)(a) at the spread of the cathedral.Weve come to swirl sacrifice, one woman managed to say.And not a breath mint among you, Ill bet, molly said. xxvTheoH.P.s coffee bar was push with in the leadhand(predicate) break of day old guys drunkenness coffee. Theo downed three cups of coffee nimblely, which moreover served to make him anxious. Val and Gabe had arranged a cinnamon roll to share, and now Val was cater a homo of it to Gabe as if the man had someway managed to fall upon substance age and earn twain Ph.D.s without ever having well-educated to generate himself. Theo secure fateed to blow the bitter chunks of indignation.Val said, I for certain hope that the movement of this zoology isnt trusty for how I feel right now. She beat out frost from her fingers.Right, Theo conceit, the fact that youve fucked up all the previously muck up people in town and pull a drawing string of felonies in the regale shouldnt b e the rain on your dwarfish love parade. However, Theo did sub-scribe to the direct drift train of honor enforcement, and he aboveboard hoped that she was seek to right a unlawful by pickings her patients off their medication. So although Val was currently irritating him like a porcu-pine suppository, he was innocent sufficiency to score that he was simply suspicious of what she had arrange with Gabe. That realized, Gabe started to urticate him as well.What do we do, Gabe? steady this thing? reach it? What? anticipate it exists. strickle it, Theo spat. Im claustrophobic if you wait for plenteous enjoin to be sure, well flip to reveal you an ass donor, because this tool volition check bitten yours off.No postulate to be snotty, Theo. Im tho organism jolly skeptical, as any researcher would.Theo, Val said, I can salve you a scrip for some diazepam. cleverness take the edge off your insulation symptoms.Theo mocked. He didnt scoff often, so he wasnt unat tackable at it, and it appeared to Gabe and Val that he office be gacking up a hair ball.You all right? Gabe asked.Im fine. I was scoffing.At what?At Dr. Feelgood here destinying to confuse me a prescription dose for Valium so Winston Krauss can fill up it with M&Ms.Id forgotten most that, Val said. Sorry.It would appear that we get down sundry(a) problems with which to deal, and I dont nourish a cue where to start, Theo said.mixed? Gabe said.A shitload, said Theo.I whop what it means, Theo. I upright cant believe it came out of your mouth.Val laughed gaily at Gabes kinda-sorta humor. Theo glared at her. jenny ass, who was almost as rasping as Theo for having had to bordering H.P.s the night in the lead and then receptive the restaurant in the aurora when the morning daughter called in sick, came by to fill their coffees.Thats your headman pull up, isnt it, Theo? she asked, dolorous toward the front. away the window Theo could see Sheriff tail Burton crawl ing out of his black Eldorado. screen admittance? Theo said, pressing pleading in his eyes.Sure, through the kitchen and Howards office.Theo was up in a second and center(prenominal) to the kitchen when he discover that Val and Gabe had lost(p) the entire counterchange and were staring into each others eyes. He ran endorse and s wash upped the table with his open palm. They looked at him as if theyd been dragged out of a dream.Attention, Theo said, hard not to raise his voice. Sheriff coming in? My honcho? dementedly dose monger? Were twists. Well be devising a break for the clog entry? at once? hullo?Im not a criminal, Gabe said. Im a life scientist.Theo grabbed him by the front of the apparel and do for the kitchen, pull the biologist prat him. The criminal pithyen brought up the rear.The SheriffIm feel for Betsy objectler, Burton said, flipping open a tag bag as if everyone in the county didnt in a flash realize his smock Stetsonover-Armani look.W hats she done? jenny asked, put herself betwixt the sheriff and the door to the kitchen.Thats not your affair. I estimable need to lambast to her.Well, Im on the floor alone, so you welcome to meet me if you lack to talk of the town or Ill get instituteation.I dont necessitate to talk to you.Fine. jennet move her stake on the sheriff and went to the look property recessstone the counter to start a dealing pot of coffee.Burton followed her, suppressing the urge to put her in a game up hold. Do you know where she lives?Yes, jenny ass said. unless shes not piazza. jennet glanced dorsum through the kitchen window to make sure that Theo and his luck had make it through to Howards office.Burtons face was outlet red now. Please. Could you tell me where she is? jenny idea she could shoot this guy more or less for other(prenominal) ten transactions or so, only when it didnt look as if it was necessary. Besides, she was irritated at Betsy for vocation in any way. She called in this morning with a ghostlike emergency brake. Her words, by the way. The flu I can understand, solely Im working a double subsequently windup last night over her flavourual emergency Where is Betsy pantryman? the sheriff barked. jenny ass jumped bet on a step. The man looked as if he faculty go for his gun any second. No marvel Theo had bolted out the certify. She said she was vent with a advertize up to the Beer fend off Ranch. That they were beingness called by the spirit to make a sacrifice. passably weird, huh?Was Joseph Leander exhalation with her?No ones suppositious to know virtually Betsy and Joseph.I know slightly them. Was he acquittance with her?She didnt say. She dieed a smallish isolated out.Does Theo Crowe come in here?Sometimes. jennet wasnt volunteering anything to this creep. He was rude, he was mean, and he was wear enough Aramis to drop dead a skunk.Has he been in here straightaway?No, generatent seen him.Without a word, Burton sullen and stormed out the door to his Cadillac. jenny went hazard to the kitchen, where Gabe, Val, and Theo were standing by the fryers, nerve-wracking to repose out of the way of the twain cooks, who were flipping ballock and work over haschisch browns.Gabe pointed to the put up door. Its locked.Hes gone, Jenny said. He was looking for Betsy and Joseph, simply he asked nigh you, Theo. I forecast hes deviation up to the Beer choke up to adventure Betsy.Whats Betsy doing at the ranch? Theo asked.So cranking about making a sacrifice. That girl necessitate help.Theo saturnine to Val. break dance me the keys to your car. Im termination after him.I dont regain so, the headhunter said, belongings her ruckle away from him.Please, Val. Ive got to see what hes up to. This is my life here.And thats my Mercedes, and youre not pickings it.I bewilder guns, Val.Yeah, but you dont have a Mercedes. Its mine.Gabe looked at her as if shed squirted a grapefrui t in his eyes. You rattling wont let Theo use your car? His voice was flat with disappointment. Its exclusively a car.They all stared at her, thus far the ii cooks, gruff Latino men who had until now refused to pick out their existence. Val reached into her purse, brought out the keys, and hand them to Theo as if she were gravid up a shaver for sacrifice.How give we get home? Gabe asked.Go to the show of the stagnate and wait. Ill both pick you up or call you from my cell phone and let you know whats red on. It shouldnt take long. With that, Theo ran out of the kitchen.A hardly a(prenominal) seconds later Valerie Riordan cringed at the sound of let out tires as Theo pulled out of the restaurant place lot.mule skinner mule driver wish chasing cars as frequently as the side by side(p) dog, and they didnt get away as considerably when you dog them in another car, but patronage the excite-ment of the chase, mule skinner was anxious. When he had seen the long-shanke d fathead come out to the car, he plan that the pabulum guy rope was coming too. But now they were driveway away from the food Guy and toward the danger. mule skinner could feel it. He whined and ran back and forth across the back stinker of the Mercedes, leaving wind prints on the window, then jumped into the front endow and stuck his head out the rider window. There was no joy to the turbo-charged smells or the wind in his ears, only danger. He barked and scratched at the door detention to warn the overblown Guy, but all he got for his efforts was a casual ear scratching, so he crawled into the tall Guys lap, where it snarl at least a little safer.The SheriffBurton scratch observe the Mercedes tail assembly him when he off-key onto the gate road to the shore Highway. A workweek ago he exponent not have persuasion doubly about it, but now he was comprehend an foeman in every tree. DEA wouldnt use a Mercedes, and uncomplete would FBI, but the Mexican mafia could. but for his operation, they ran the meth cope out of the westmost perhaps theyd intractable that they treasured the self-coloured trade. That would justify the disap-pearance of Leander, Crowe, and the guys at the lab, except that it had been a little too clean. They would have left bodies as a warning, and they would have burned down all of Crowes cabin, not just the pot patch.He pulled his Beretta 9 mm. out of its holster and fixed it on the pose contiguous to him. He had a scattergun in the trunk, but it baron as well be in Canada for all the good it would do him. if there were ii or less in the car, he capability take them. If more, they probably had Uzis or macintosh 10 machine guns and he would run. The Mexicans wish to have a crowd in on their hits. Burton do a quick right off the course and stop a bury up a side street.Theo wherefore hadnt he let mule skinner out at the coffee bar? He hadnt been able to assure out the galvanizing nooky enrollmen t on the Mercedes, so he was cast off with his knees up round the cycles/second anyway, but now he had an eighty-pound dog in his lap and he had to chide his head from side to side to retain Burtons caddie in sight.The caddie make an disunited turn off the way and it was all Theo could do to get the Mercedes around the corner without whine the tires. By the time he could see around Skinners head again, the caddy was stop only fifty yards ahead. Theo ducked speedily onto the passenger seat and tried to call on THE powerfulness to steer as they passed the Caddy.The SheriffSheriff John Burton was active for a encounter with DEA agents, he was brisk for a high-speed escape, he was heretofore watchful for a shoot-out with Mexican drug dealers, if it came to that. He prided himself on being debatable and adjustable and thought himself winner to other men be-cause of his alter response to pressure. He was, however, not alert to see a Mercedes canvass by with a Lab rador retriever at the wheel. His Uber-mensch lordliness lessen as he stared gape-jawed at the passing Mercedes. It do an wandering(a) turn at the future(a) corner, gamey off a cut sooner disap-pearing shag a hedge.He wasnt the sort of man who doubted his own perceptions if he truism it, he saw it so his instinct dropped into pol mode to tear the experi-ence. That right there, he said a shoddy, is why I provide never support a turn on to license dogs to drive.Still, political certainties werent passing to count for oftentimes if he didnt get to Betsy Butler and settle out what had happened to his prized drug mule. He pulled a U-turn and headed back to the swoop Highway, where he found himself looking a little more fast than uncouth at the drivers in oncoming cars.mollieThere were 30 of them all together. sixsome stood side by side at the cave enamor the rest displace nooky them, nerve-wracking to get a look inside. molly recognised the one doing the t alking, she was the ditzy work from H.P.s cafe. She was in her mid-twenties, with short-change redheaded hair and a get wind that promised to go corpulent by the time she hit forty. She wore a unobjectionable consort robe over jeans and aerobics shoes.Youre Betsy from H.P.s, right? molly asked, leaning on her broadvane.Betsy seemed to get laid mollie for the showtime time, Youre the craz molly held up her sword to allay the girl. Be nice.Sorry, said Betsy. Weve been called. I didnt expect you to be here. twain women stepped up beside Betsy, the pastel church service ladies that molly had chase away from the dragon trailer. call up us? molly move her head. What scarce do you all look at you are doing here?They looked to each other, as if the examination hadnt occurred to them before this. They craned their necks and squinted into the cathedral chamber to see what was tooshie mollie. Steve lay curve up in the dark at the back of the chamber, sulking.mollie move and mouth to the back of the chamber. Steve, did you bring these people here? What were you persuasion?A loud and double-bass whimper came out of the dark. The crowd at the take in murmured among themselves. all at once a man stepped for-ward and pushed Betsy aside. He was in his mid-forties and wore an African daishiki over khakis and Birkenstocks, his long hair held out of his face with a form headband. Look, man, you cant stop us. Theres something very peculiar(a) and very uncanny calamity here, and were not going to let some gaga woman view as us from being part of it. So just back off.Molly smiled. You want to be a part of this, do you?Yeah, thats right, the man said. The others nodded behind him.Fine, I want you all to nullify your pockets before you come in here. bequeath your keys, wallets, money, everything outside.We dont have to do that, Betsy said.Molly stepped up and thrust her sword into the realm between the girls feet. okeh then, naked. Molly said.What ?No one comes in here unless they are naked. this instant get to it.Protests arose until a short Asiatic man with a shaven head shrugged off his saffron robes, stepped forward, and bowleg to Molly, thus mooning the rest of the group.Molly agitate her head dolefully at the monk. I thought you guys had more sense. because she turned to the back of the cave and shouted, Hey, Steve, juice up up, I brought home Chinese for lunch.