" You're not running anywhere." He said as he took a step closer to me. I could tell by the tone and look on his face that there were serious conseque...ces to that."Hey man, my car is right outside in the parking lot. You can see it from the window." I don't give a fuck! And I don't see nothin' but a cheap assho' who ain't payin'!" But, I...What else can I do.....I don't have any cash on me." Well.... You better start workin' it off then." Working it off? How would I...." As the words left my. Okay, she was certainly capable of talking her younger sister into something but where was mom when all this was going on. Was mom somehow involved?"It's still the name on my passport," I protested lamely as we drove. My sister, who was capable of irritating anyone, simply ignored me.My mother had me when she was sixteen. Rosa Bellini. A high school teen from New Jersey, the beloved daughter of an Italian/American family, a girl who'd fallen for a college exchange student from Sweden named Mats. Twenty-seven days later.Jack transformed for three nights. The first of the moon was only ever a partial change, but enough for his body to alter to wolf and a hunger to hunt and feed. The full moon, when he forgot his human side completely, and then the next night, when his transformation would arouse a terrible hunger and then would leave him totally exhausted.Jack could not get over his revulsion for human flesh. The smell was enough each time they fed, to make him gag. He subsisted on. Rose generally stayed behind as the guard.On about the third day, Albi expressed his wish again to acquire a tumbling barrel and some grinding materials. He wanted to play with some of the gems that we had found. We had found the lake that morning. I could have told him that I can shape gems with magic but why spoil his fun, he was having a lovely time.They were his gems to do with as he pleased and if we did have visitors, it would look more believable if we had the usual paraphernalia set up..