He expected to be in and out in less than ten minutes. His most pressing need was coffee, so he headed for aisle five.Walking with his head down, preo...ccupied with the sweet memories of his two recent encounters, he almost ran headlong into a woman standing in front of the gourmet coffees. Actually she wasn't just standing; she was bent over, and her short tennis dress gave Tom a clear view of her legs, almost all the way to the hem of her panties. Just what I don't need today, Tom chuckled to. Even worse, shefigured she would now be back in the lap of the beast who had made herfemale in the first place. Who had cast her terribly alluring spellupon Tamara while riding a bus into the city for the first time as theyoung man he used to be.She just stared at Rita Noble in horror as the debutante approached,stopping right by her bedside. The grin remained on her face as sheplaced a hand upon the large dome of flesh that was Tamara's tummy."Bearing a rather large burden, I see. I wonder how. It was obvious that Sandra was in need of immediate surgery; hopefully, she could hang on until Alice arrived. Alice had given Sandra a dose of morphine for the pain, but hoped that she would not need more than that before Alice arrived on the scene.While all of this was going on, Ed had checked for survivors in the hut. He found a woman, Dagmar Hollbein, and three children. She said that they had been under attack by pirates when the waterspouts hit. Both boats had been transported, and the. Hubris. Setting myself up for a fall. We thought we had everything covered, moving the remaining 6,000 or so souls from Laramie to Cheyenne. Bullshit. Our goddamned bunch of rowdies discovered the Laramie airport and a couple of 'em knew how to fly. At least one knew rotary. Remember those four idiots that didn't get pureed on the first attack at my place? Well, they had big mouths. I got trick-or-treaters and it wasn't even Halloween yet.One idiot tried to land a helo on my roof. I wired up my.