When he answered it, his room mate from school was on the other end. Bill informed Rob that he was going to be passing through Rob’s town tomorrow a...d did he want to get together and see if they could score some pussy. Rob is always up for finding pussy so he agreed with Bill. Bill said he’d stop by Rob’s house about 1:00 PM tomorrow. The next day Bill showed up at Rob’s house right on time. Rob invited him in and offered him something to eat. Bill, being a nineteen year old teenager,. He had brown skin and long black hair tied back behind his head, and a jagged scar on one cheek. He carried a spear in one hand and wore a vest. There were four runes along each of his upper arms. One of the runes on his right arm and three on his left glowed with a white light. The other four looked like dull gray scars burned into the skin.“Well?” the man said with a heavy accent as he came toward Corec. “What do you have to say for yourself?” He looked young, but he moved and spoke as if he. ‘cause he’s wearing a big cowboy hat, that’s why!”Mom—or Stephie or whatever—on the other end of the conversation, took over for a moment. “No ... I don’t know yet... , “ my beautiful Latina said quietly, “ ... I’ll call you later, okay?” She closed her eyes and bit her lips while she listened for a long moment. “Okay, Mommy ... I’ll be careful ... love you, too, BYE!” The girl I knew now as “Mercy” stabbed at the disconnect icon and shoved her phone into her a rear pocket.I ushered her through. Nobody could capture so much detail, so much emotion, in so few strokes of a pencil, nobody except Dee.Placing the sketch in a folder to keep it safe until I could take it home for Zoe, I could not resist a last long glance, my mind now filled with thoughts of my girl, thoughts that set the rhythm of my day. Thoughts that made the paperwork less mundane, the hours fly and as for the forthcoming photo shoot, right then I could have kissed Dee, the images began to coalesce, imagination in.