I stood outside his cell and let him wind down. His vitriolic speech didn’t bother me at all. In fact, it almost made me feel sorry for him. When he...ran out of invectives, I spoke for the first time.“As an officer of the court, I thought the right thing to do would be to ride over here and try to get you out of this mess. After listening to you cuss me out for the last five minutes, I guess you don’t want any help from me.”I had turned around and started for the door, when Howard called me. “So are there any other tests they have to pass?” Shannon asked, mirth still in her eyes.“Well, originally this part was going to be a bit different,” Jonah replied, grinning. “First I was thinking they’d have to pass a good old sobriety test. You know, walk the line and say the alphabet backward in Russian and shit. And then I was going to have them do a limbo, and they’d have to make it through without falling on their asses! But Adam, well, he convinced me to go with the scientific method.. "That's a deal," said Denise. There was a long silence. "You know, we don't have much business coming for the next couple of months, at least, so it might be a while before we bring you back. Do you think we could still get together for lunch, say, once a week? I could meet you half way."Hayley was surprised how far conversation had strayed over the past weeks from their original common interests and hobbies. But, she knew that she enjoyed Denise's company and their lunchtime talks, and she. I will be here." Thank you. I will see you shortly. Good-bye." Good-bye," she said, hanging up.Toby sighed again and pulled the map book out of the pile of papers on his passenger seat, flipping to the paperclip that held Helen Diggs address and map page. He preferred paper maps to the GPS units that the rest of the technicians seemed to be in love with. Maybe it was because he liked seeing more than just a little window on where he was going, or perhaps, like now, he could plot a couple of.