He met Frank, Bill, and Dave coming down the hall. Shortly, Jeff started a fire as Frank poured the coffee. After handing each man their cup, Frank pu...led a seat over to join the others as the fire began to lick at the logs.Jeff took his first sip for the day as he glanced over at Frank. "Not quite light out yet, but best I can tell, the weather looks okay, so I guess you're riding to the airport in the copter this morning." Yeah, I just talked to the pilot. He'll be here at seven-thirty like. But nearly everyone does it before going home." That's five times." I know. In real life that'd be way too much. I was reading something here in the library—have you looked at the books and tapes here? They're mostly sex related."Anyway, I was reading the diary of this housewife who's a swinger. She averaged six men a night at a party, and she and her husband would go to these three-day retreats." I read something about that," Jared said, "and I really felt for the guys. All of this pussy. I have just become a receptacle for his useless, endless chatter. I am so far beyond caring what is streamed into head that I now make no effort to take in and process all of the facts that are being introduced against my will into my subconscious and conscious mind. If I sit within talking distance then I quickly become ‘the listener’. Stories of what happened today, what he thought should have happened, what may happen tomorrow all are brought to bear on my poor abused ears. The tales of. I didn’t mean to scare you.” Martin uttered. He couldn’t fully comprehend why she looked so aghast. He hadn’t meant to scare her like that. The loud footsteps on the staircase announced that Elory was coming down. Alyssa quickly tried to straighten her dress again and sat down. In the background she could still hear Clover and Damien making noises. She wondered if they were kissing like this too? As the fat woman entered the room, she looked over to the barrels where Clover was and called out.