As the engine restarted a violent gust of wind shook the Citroën. I tried to tune in a radio station to keep me company, anything would do, but all I... found was endless static and ghostly whispers.Having fresh eyes lifted my spirits. Alert again sensing every bump and dip in the road, I listened to the tyres doing battle with the gritty slippery road surface. Still, no other headlights or signs of life were to be seen. I was very alone.Pressing on trying to compromise safety with my eagerness to. .” Grerown restrained the stutter but his tone was aggrieved, envious to the point cynicism. “We agreed to stop the jokes, so please don’t kid with us. Should you forsake attribute energy, a path it is said is prerequisite to Immortality, what do you expect to find?”Grerown addressed Zax as he would a blood related brother, and he acknowledged his inferiority in terms of talent to the many prodigies from Kingdom Earth, including his wife, but Zax’s assumption were bordering blasphemy in the. ” “Seasons meal with menstrual clots.”“That is what all the forbidden phrases are, except the one Ellen said,” I told Faith. “I had to bring you out outside for the worst of the worst. I couldn’t keep myself from having to laugh, so I know you won’t be able to contain yourself.”“Tell me already. I’m not getting any younger, you know,” Faith teased.“Depending on the inflection, it means something similar, but slightly different things. One pronunciation accuses someone of being a gigolo. A. She married a boy right out of high school much to her parents regret but the union stayed intact all these years. Her husband Chuck was a local high school football star and was a legend in Longview. Being a football star in small towns gave them fame forever, or so they thought. He worked in a lumber yard for three years then applied to become a state trooper. He passed the exam and the road to become a trooper was an easy path for him. He was on the night shift as he cruised the highways and.