We worked at the same place, but different shifts. As I was going into work, she was leaving. She would wave hi and just to be polite I’d wave back,...but it wasn’t like we were best friends. All I knew about her was that she wore tight clothing all the time; her boobs would be pouring over her shirt, and a couple of times I swore I saw the top of her nipples, but that’s beside the point. Some guy from work was having a Halloween party at his house and invited everyone. I was really shy at work. About half of The Lab's floor space was currently being taken up by some gigantic object, covered by a large white sheet (with Snoopy printed all over it, which Roy immediately recognized as Sam's old bed sheet). And stood in front on it, with his back turned to his one man audience, was Sam, fully decked out in his lab coat as though he were an actual scientist. He turned dramatically to regard Roy, his coat whipping behind him, with a smirk and a pair of glasses framing his freckled face, and. " Once Gamelin might have objected. Now he'd heard too many stories about sacrifices to the God-King. He'd seen the pyramid in Xipototec, even if it hadn't been as robust as it once had been and shortly thereafter was gone. The energy and effort of the people tearing it down with just their fingers had been clear enough.They hadn't been very high up the hill. Gamelin gave a short speech telling his men what they were to do. There wasn't the usual humor they took with them to a task. Gamelin. Besides, she could make the trip in one day if she pushed a little bit.Ethel whiled away the time that evening by playing poker. It was extremely profitable—she made nearly $40 before the game broke up. She was really earning the sobriquet of The Poker Queen.Ethel drank a last Mexican beer and headed for the hotel. She had gotten as far as the first alley entrance when a man stepped out in front of her and demanded her poker winnings. She couldn't make out his face because he wore his bandanna.