Interesting from an architectural and planning point of view, and your parish council is a legend in its own time. Golly, you’re not on it are you?�...� I hastily added in case I went on to dig deeper.“No, little fear of that,” said George. “They do hold elections, but no one ever stands, it wouldn’t do them much good, although I suppose if there were enough of them ... but there never are, so all the members are co-opted. Democracy in action, eh?”“We never have problems like that,” I assured him.. We snuck away without anybody seeing us and soon I had seen the lastview that I ever would see of the mansion. I told him that once I wasback in the safety of the room that I and Shelly had used and rented foran entire year, I would transform myself.The walk back to town went quickly and I was soon walking in familiarareas again. We came to one of the houses in one of the shabbier areasof town and I stopped.I said, "Here!" and directed him to the door.I searched my pockets for the key and. ‘Well no shit, genius. I don’t think he noticed.’ Nick arched an eyebrow. ‘I assumed.’ ‘I might as well have been Baby from Dirty Dancing. I should have just said, ‘I carried a watermelon.” Kayla laughed and brushed her bangs out of her eyes. ‘Well, I’ve got to run. Here ya go….Have fun.’ Nick flashed a brief smile, handed her the paint, and headed towards the entrance. Kayla slumped against her car. ‘Great. Fantastic. The first time you see Nick you’re ugly as hell, and you’re covered in paint. He wrapped an arm around her and savored the moment, the way she felt in his arms."Why, it almost looks like its out near Grover's Garage!" She said. John agreed. The small mechanic shop and convenience store was in that area somewhere.Or had been.Suddenly the night sky lit up as what was surely Grover's exploded."It's the commies!" He shouted. She molded herself tighter to him, her brunette hair covering her face as she nuzzled into his arm. "They're attacking us!" What are we going to do?!".