‘Firm, not droopy. You know, I’m getting more and more impressed all the time. Take off your clothes, honey.’ The girl glanced fearfully at the ...ald man, and Hunter rolled his eyes. ‘You’re a good scout, Ben, I’ll give you that. But it’s always the same. You coddle these girls and then you leave it to me to break them in.’ The fat man looked unapologetic and bored. ‘I do enough,’ he yawned. Hunter’s expression betrayed his opinion of that statement. ‘Honey,’ he said to the girl, ‘you’ve got ten. Everyone had been in bed for a couple hours.I got out of my bed. I got out of my room. I wasn't sure I was going to actually be so bold, but then, having made my way across the house to the guest quarters, I opened the door and closed it behind me.The one disadvantage of the guest rooms were that they were tacked on to the end of the ductwork. There was a window unit, but Carol had ignored it. She'd opened windows, and lay on the mattress with all the covers kicked away and her nightgown. " Who else knows about ... Spook?" You now. Me. That's it." Nobody else?" she demanded."Well, Spook knows, of course. That's three of us." 'Spook knows, '" she echoed. "'The Shadow knows.' God, what a silly name. Why'd you come up with that?"I laughed. "He spooked me when he first showed up. I didn't believe it either, not for a long while, at first I thought it was just a hacker. But it isn't, it can't be, nobody can hack the whole world." And I went on to tell her all the things Spook had. It’d be a great ending to a wonderful day. But if you’d rather not, we understand.”Roger looked hopefully at Lucy’s face, which seemed to tell him that she’d rather not. Not tonight, anyway, but some day in the near future might be a different story.“Nah, I’ve gotta work tomorrow,” was Roger’s excuse, “but maybe some other time. Besides, Lucy looks like she could use some rest. I know I could. Kicking your ass at volleyball takes a lot out of a guy.”“Yeah, I get it,” Brian accepted, “but the.