" Who is he? Are really sure that he knows me or ever been at the course? Tell me who he is and let me talk to him and I'll show you that he is only t...ying a dirty trick for getting you laid." You will see him. We have a TV camera in the spare room and you will see everything on this monitor. If you had confessed yesterday, I would have gotten my revenge at a hotel without telling you anything about it. Don't blame me. You denied it and preferred it this way."Now I noted a color monitor on the. He'd heard the same whines when he went after the Shoggoloth.'It's too powerful. It's too dangerous. We can't risk you. Blah blah blah.'Carpenter didn't know the meaning of 'can't'Sure, the Shoggoloth had nearly killed him, but if he'd wanted an easy fight he'd have stayed in the marines to fight the camel-humpers out in Eye-Raq.Demons were tough but they weren't invincible. You just had to hit them a lot harder.Carpenter had dropped a church on the Shoggoloth and driven a burning fuel tanker. I was worried that pointing this out would precipitate a public breakup, so I just played along.We had been set up on a dinner date. I was paying, so I just ordered salad. Tiffany had couldn't decide between smoked monkfish and roasted duck breast. Finally, she decided on the fish, which was at least the cheaper of the two. We made awkward small talk for a while, until she finally brought up the subject I'd been hoping to avoid."So I was thinking maybe we could hang out at your house after. "But I thought you were mad at me for picking Lori," said Dusty puzzled. He was still trying to figure her out."But you didn't really pick Lori, did you? You still like Lori but you like me too, don't you? And I can see it out of the corner of my eye that I have your complete and total undivided attention, don't I? But you're not sleeping with her, are you? You've had the chance several times, but you've not given in to it once, have you? And I know you know the reason why you haven't without.