All I'll need is your social security number and 50% deposit and I can give you a date for your session."He hung up the phone without saying a word. H...s identity, his privacy, was all that he held sacred. There was no way in hell he was going to give a stranger $20,000 AND the key to his security. Charles had an unnatural paranoia that he was going to be found out, that there were somehow mechanisms in place from on high that would bring the world to a crashing halt if anyone "regular" were to. .The force of the impact caused the rear of the chopper to shudder, andthen disintegrate as the force of the explosion blew apart the cabin. Thecrew member manning the door gun fell away, but his harness snapped himback. As the remains of the chopper fell to the desert floor I braced forthe violent impact.In an earth shattering wall of sound, heat and debris the once splendidbird crumbled into the sand. I must have been knocked out for when I cameto all I could hear were the screams of the. ”Though I jest, I am stern voiced and only my eyes tell him that I am still in a playful mood.The lamps burn low now in the Lapis Chamber. I could fetch oil to replenish them but I find the gloom most pleasing. The flames flicker occasionally; disturbed by an eddy in the air, the origin of which is unknown to me. The lamplight illuminates Jaano’s dark features, lending a mysterious obscurity to his handsomeness and giving the whites of his eyes an otherworldly look. He bears the cast of a hero. Wave bye-bye as he screams for 18 stories. But I have bills to pay, so it looks like his feet will stay on solid ground. So that was my situation on that particular day. I make all of the necessary calls. Canceled my plans and sit my ass back down in the chair and start banging out those fucking pages. By eleven p.m. I’m on the final page. My eyes are bl**dshot. I have a bit of a headache. I look out my office window, down at the city. The streets are alive and electric with the usual buzz.