There was a straightaway and a distant cabin, glowing softly silver. He floored it; the engine roared and the car bounced down the road, hurtling towa...rds a wooden bridge crossing a ravine."The bridge! Stop!" Britney shouted.Kyle saw it. "Shit!" He slammed on the brakes.The middle of the bridge was gone, leaving splintered edges. The brake peddle pulsed as the car slid down the gravel. They were going too fast. The rumble of tires on gravel turned to the screech of wood on rubber. The car. Kodlak thought you were, even though you are young and with us mere months. But we still have our… rituals.” I quivered in anticipation – and not a little cold in the mountaintop air; I was desert-born, not used to cold, let alone the light snow that swirled about us. “First, the hunt.” Aela stepped away from my trembling form, strode a ways off; there she stood betwixt the twins, both naked as well, infuriatingly indistinct in the moonlight – even though I knew both of their bodies well enow:. Things were just getting stupider if that was a word.“Boss?”It took him two full seconds to realize that Mark was trying to draw his attention. He reluctantly let go of the pencil he had been munching on until being interrupted.“Yes, Mark,” he said snappily. “Sorry, I’m just in a bad mood,” he added quickly.His secretary threw him a short look, filled with pity. It lasted about a second, though.“Yolanda says that she has been going easy on you since you have been through the accident and all,. "Nothin' ... You're a good driver, right?" Who's the best driver in your family?" Mr. Sawyer kept rubbing my leg, just a little. "Your dad?" My dad?" I giggled at that. "Nah, he's just fair. He wasn't ever much for racing, just building. My brother Mark's serious though, he'll run his girlfriend's Challenger against anything he can find for slips." His girlfriend's car?" Mr. Sawyer gave me a look in the dim light. The sun had gone down a half hour before. Girlfriends weren't generally noted for.