His cheek was hot. He looked at me with fierce adoration in his eyes,stood up, then knelt to put my shoes back on.We walked back to the car, arm and ...rm, that time and we drove toGretchen's apartment.He parked in Gretchen's lot, helped me out of the car and said, "That wasone of the best dates of my life, Nicole. If you could see your way toseeing me again, I would love to arrange another date with you throughGretchen."As an answer, I startled Mr. Ryan by leaning forward, putting my hands. Meanwhile, Diego and Kira do their best to send arrows at the head that remarkably like the hands move fluidly through the sand. The battle flows like a continuous loop of dodging and attacking until finally Ash yells, ‘Eleni! Give me a distraction!’ She nods and begins to chant and Ash with his shield held out smashing through each clawed arm that bursts forth from the ground. By the time he reaches the head of the giant ant Eleni rips loose her Dark Star spell enveloping the head in a dark. This must have caught their eye although we were unaware that was the case. 2 of them came over and said something to the effect that we didn't look old enough to be looking to buy beer. Not sure exactly but we made some kind of joke and we all had a little laugh. At this time the store clerk was getting a bit annoyed and told us if we were looking to buy alcohol he would card us all. With that plan squashed we just bought our snacks and went outside.Sure enough before we were more than a few. “Kent, tomorrow when this mess has burned out, get a contractor with an excavator and dozer to dig a big hole and bury the remains deep. Tell him to stay on the equipment and not to be wandering around picking up souvenirs. Send me the bill,” I said.The drones had just been put away when a news chopper made several low slow passes over head.“If you get any calls, divert them to the task force,” I said to Kent and Len.Howie and the crew went back to Morton as Vicky and I headed to South.