I would have to feed him the oil rig story and hope he didn't hock the computer while I was under. Hell he could hock it while I was in town, if that ...was his intent, I decided.I wasn't nearly as depressed that morning. I suppose it was because I was working toward something. Whatever the reason, I beat Jeremy into the parking lot by a full trike length. I couldn't get off the trike before he made it into the parking space we share, but I was attempting it for sure. Poor Alice never won. I. .. there yet?” she said, stirring in his lap.“We are near the location, my lady.” She looked up to see a dragon’s head peering down at her. She stayed where she was trying to keep warm.“You can be really loud at times Sárkány, did anyone tell you that?” Daiyu told him“Trust me. I have told him that a lot in the past. Always the valiant knight running into danger oh so willingly,” Xuanwu said as her hand continued to guide them.The carpet was slowing down now as it traveled at a running man’s. Willet,” she said through the screen door, not allowing him in the house. “Are you going to be making it a habit of visiting me on Sunday mornings?”He gave her a sly smile but did not make a move to enter the parsonage. They simply looked at each other in the eye for several long moments before Helen opened the screen door and stepped aside.“Can I get you a cup of coffee?” she asked, as she led him to the kitchen.Helen was facing the coffee maker when she felt him press up behind her. She. “Gerome don’t send him out alone. Do you hear me?”“Don’t worry half the time Tommy is shadowing us and I’m sure he is armed,” Gerome explained.“Then god damn it you listen to him. I do not wan’t anything to happen to that kid,” I said. “Or you either.”“Neither do I Ed. He is a likable kid,” Gerome agreed.I was worried about the kid. He really was too young to be involved with us old farts. He still thought that he was invincible. That was how we all felt once upon a time. To some extent Gerome.