So I made up a bullshit excuse about having to get up early to visit my parents the next day and made my escape. All the way home I fumed about how ro...ally I'd been screwed by my so-called friend Brenda. All week long she'd talked this party up at the office, riding me like a rented mule until I promised to go. And when I arrived after hours of getting ready, she wasn't even there! I phoned her on my cell to find out where the hell she was. Brenda admitted that she blew off the party at the. . Or liberated if you please.As she drove pass me she signaled with her lights. I tailed her as we got back on the two lane highway waiting for things to happen. After some ten minutes signs indicated a rest- area ahead and at the same time she blinked her right taillight. We passed some trucks parked in the forestry surroundings and about halfway she pulled up. I pulled up beside her lowered the window as did she. We looked at eachother, but didn't speak a word. She unbuttoned the shirt and. I’m adding a concrete plant as there is starting to be enough business to justify one if you include Pine Ridge. I’ll be able to supply material up along the highway too. If you want big work up there, I’m sure I can get it for you.”I just stood and stared at Ralph Cummings. What the heck is this all about, me, road commissioner? Doing what, keeping roads graded and rocked? Plowing snow all winter? I don’t think so, though I would think about it.I told Gene, “Run down and bring Ezra back so he. ?She lunged forward and almost instantaneously, grabbed hold of Judas.The force knocked the girl out of his hands, and she sat on the groundcatching her breath. Still shooting forward, Lady Bullet quickly pulledup, her trajectory now aimed vertically into the sky. The two flewhigher and higher.Higher.Colder.Darker.She kept her focus up onto space. She didn?t know how far she would needto go, or if she would even survive up there.Then, silence. Lady Bullet looked around: darkness. They were in.