"Yes but nothing serious, I was mostly just keeping him company while he was preparing to go back home." What did Bert say about him anyway?"I ignored... her question and asked. "You ever hear anything from him after he fucked off back over there." No, no, nothing." You okay Jane, are you hot?" No I'm fine why?" You look hot." I bet you say that to all the girls."I did not reply or smile at her joke."He's got aids apparently, well HIV." What? Who?" You asked what Bert said, apparently Chucky turd. . Wrong ... nope not RA ... Wrong ... Not the house girl that was fucking him to death ... Yup ... Wanzor ... because she said so. Since she said so ... and he was in 'perfect' health (just ask RA's priests.) she must have done something to make him dead.You will note ... no one said she killed him ... No, make him dead, they said. The difference is infinitesimal ... like murder in the first degree and murder in the second. No matter how they died ... someone is guilty.Oh ... the priests of RA. “Holy fuck!” Tony yelled, clambering to his feet. “What the fuck was that all about?”Ric couldn’t answer. He was laughing too hard. But he was watching! If one of the twins had been hiding in a tree, perhaps the other was treed, as well.Pretending to look where the girl had vanished into the brush, Ric casually turned, searching ... his face pointed straight, but his eyes raised upward into the branches above them.“I see one,” Ric said, almost too softly for Tony to hear. “Give me the bow and. ’ * The following morning Ivy woke up to her phone ringing, at first she thought it was her alarm, until she realised she wasn’t in Cartwright Hall and she didn’t have to get up for work. She was at a festival and the bar didn’t open till early evening. She felt a fleeting resentment to whoever it was interrupting her lie in, it had taken her ages to fall asleep and she had a busy night ahead of her. ‘Hello?’ she said, her voice groggy. ‘Morning sleepy head, did I wake you?’ ‘Luke!’ They hadn’t.