Hope the reunion was fun,’ Hank said, extending a bottle of Makers’ Mark bourbon, the amber liquid sloshing across the curve of its neck. ‘Night... cap?’ ‘I think I had enough to drink tonight.’ ‘You can have one more. You’re not driving anymore this evening,’ he replied. Collin sighed and moved out of the doorway as Hank brushed past and to a sofa chair next to a plain wooden table, marred by ghostly rings of past beverages. ‘You’ll have to supply the glasses tonight, and unless you like it neat,. She had wanted to see it herself, even though Ruth had insisted that no-one who lived around here had heard of such a thing in these woods."Yes, yes. This is the right grove," Ruth answered. Where else would something like that be than in these old witch-woods?"This is a strange forest," Julie said. She was glancing around so energetically her braided red hair was swishing from side to side.Ruth brushed some twigs out of her own hair, which was gray and frizzy because she was seventy-two, and. “He had skinny legs, so I wasn’t sure if I’d get it or not.”“Go on, you’re going to have to spill the story now,” Aaron said with a grin.“Seven shots,” James said. “No street lighting and it was around midnight. She had just a bit of back-light from a building that was over fifty metres away. She takes out all three tires on the left side of the lorry. She shoots the man who was firing at her, in the heart, while he was running side on and away from her.”“She then takes out the lorry driver. ." but what?" But it's not quite the same, but... we still have an hour and a halfleft in the car." She shrugged.I took the bottle from her and closed it. "Well then, let's get toit."* * *We got to "the facility" late that first night. It wasn't nearly asintimidating as it sounded, they called themselves a "cosmeticrejuvenation spa", and were located in a building adjoining a five starhotel, which was itself adjoining a shopping mall. And although we'dspend our nights in the spa, for.