"Let's eat them."Click-clacking down the wide marble corridor, the slanting rays ofsunlight flashing on and off on their sashaying bodies, Lucian coul...n'tstop feeling like a cowboy hero on his way to high noon.'The reckoning', he thought, and chuckled. He knew they'd all be there;he was ten minutes late to ensure that.To his satisfaction, they'd kept the seating arrangement he'd imposed.It looked as if they'd never left at all, although there were two newfaces - no doubt Parker's lawyers. Ching Lee took the commercial video camera from Lorrie and set the tripod up to be able start taking video as soon as it was in sight - which would be 5 miles out as clear as it was.We watched as the speck grew and listened as the tower gave altitude and corrections to the flight path, until the auto landing system took over. It touched down right on the numbers, smoke rolling from the tires as they bit into the concrete.“Toy - you call that big mother a toy - damn!” Duke said.For some reason I. .. just put on my loose cotton top and shorts without underwear and hurried to open the door... I saw three men standing with backpacks I didn't know them... they told me that my best friend had sent them to me... so I called up my friend and was told that these men were his family friends and were new In the city and they didn't book hotels and my friend was out and would return the next day noon. So he requested me to let them stay in my house just for the night... and I agreed.I ushered them. I had been to Mall-mart, Ihad been to Super-Shop, I had been to Targ-hut. I had tried a few of thespecialty shops in the local mall, but none of them had anything nearspecial enough.I don't know how I found this rickety old shop. I had turned sixteenjust a few months ago, and was driving around in my beater car when Ihad seen the sign in the window of this place, so I had found a parkingspot and headed over.I looked around and saw weirdly shaped pieces of wood, old jars filledwith things that I.