The journey was uneventful and we made good time. As we had plenty of time until check-in my military training kicked in and I insisted that we drove ...he route from the hotel to the club. We turned into an industrial estate and drove past two-story flat-roofed office buildings before the sat nav announced that we had reached our destination. All we could see was another two-story office block, although this one seemed to be boarded up. We stopped outside the entrance and looked closely at. After close to an hour, she still was not ready to return to the hotel. She found a diner a block away and went in and ordered some coffee. When her phone rang, she grabbed for it. "Hello." "Hi, Ryan? This is Bax. Chuck Baxter." "Hi, Bax. How are you?" Her stomach tied in knots; why would Bax call unless it was bad news? "I'm fine. Listen, Brody wanted me to call you. I don't know if you know, but he got hit in the game last night." She swallowed. "Yeah, I know. I saw. How is he? It looked. His bigger hips seemed tothrust his body far in the water. Soon enough though, his legs weremoving in unison. Not one leg up and the other down. But synchronized.His legs were fusing together. Derek's feet and toes were changing too.It's almost like if he could hear ankles and toes and feet cracking,flattening and fusing. Derek had more control and could wiggle hislengthening toes in the water. They were practically flippers now. Hereveled in the feelings of his body changing and becoming. Al wasn't into religion. All he knew was she was the best. Helen urged him to solve the crime. But she told him that she wouldn't be surprised if one of her friends had done the deed. Then she told him about Peter and Michael. It disturbed him that these men had done such rotten things to her friends. He might find out who did it but he may not tell the authorities.It had taken some time for the two of them to get even this far. Unlike the previous week, this week Barb had told Ken they needed.