" I laughed after I said it.I drove her to the bed and breakfast that the Russians were running as a high priced brothel and blackmail spot when I mov...d home. If she knew the history, she didn't comment. I was glad of that. I had intimate knowledge of it and wished I didn't.It was hard for me, but I walked down the hall with Lois. I even installed her into a room. I made arrangements to come visit her on the weekend. Then Janet was pushing me out the door. "We don't like for them to have much. “Dave, We are really glad that you could see your way clear to allow us to visit you,” said Stacey. “We’ve missed you, honestly.”“Yeah sure,” I said, how sincerely would have been arguable. “Everyone else is out back. Let’s join them.”I wanted to get my wife near me as soon as I could. I didn’t trust myself around the woman, Stacey. I needed my Rozelle, and I know that that makes me sound like a pussy. What can I say I am one when it comes to my women.“Momma! Dad!” screamed Jenna. I could see. It was so real that when he woke he passed his hands under his nose so he could be sure. He swore he could still taste her, even though he knew it had all been a dream. Weeks passed before he got the nerve to approach her at the information desk, and it was a patent disaster. The student she’d been working with returned in the middle of his phony request and one of the other librarians jumped in to help. He’d slunk out of there like a criminal with some stupid photography book and a healthy. The bard. He’d left the chaosed idiot crucified on the hill so he’d be able to watch the Red Guard kill everyone in town. It had never occurred to him he might fail; it had never occurred to him the bard might witness the Guard being forced to fall back. He made a mental note to carve the man’s eyes out when this was through. And sever his tongue. Maybe chop off his hands, as well, so he had no way of telling anyone what he’d witnessed. Of course, it meant he was going to have to leave another.