The next morning Mondo went back to the tigers carcass ...it was almost clean nothing but bones left. He looked around and found the head and removed ...he Saber- tooth. Being about six inches long they would be good for stabbing. He headed back to camp the kits were playing and nipping at the badger bones. He staked out the tiger skin and went to work on scrapping. Mondo lifted the poles and started off it had been three days preparing the tiger skin, the kits played around his feet. They. The teenaged girl knew what she was showing, and she knew that the older man was looking, too. But she made no gestures towards him that told him that she knew. Instead, she just gave him her usual smile and followed him into the store."So, what's bothering you, Mr. Derrelli?"David was even more surprised at her persistence in asking him about his troubles, "Nothing," he mumbled. There was no way that he was going to tell this young girl anything about his personal life, especially his problems. She’d been singled out to be the latest victim in a string of orchestrated and well-planned abductions which had been plaguing the town for weeks. The gang’s modus-operandi was well established and widely publicised, with all of the several abductions of lone women having been from the quiet corners of various supermarket carparks in the broad daylight of late-morning.But still, that’s how and where she’d chosen to park that fateful day…… far away from the store’s entrance in an isolated area. It looked neat and well kept but in need of paint. There was a larger building off to the side with two pieces of road building equipment parked in front. Annie handed me the phone and asked me if I would wait until she checked her messages. She was out of the truck, running toward the house before I could answer, the red cloth bobbing along behind her. She had left her bag, again. ‘Sorry Mike but it doesn’t look like I’m going to make it back in time for us to go out, I know how Marian.