I pulled my hand back and waited but nothing happened so I looked up at Cait and shrugged and smiled and I think we both were kind of relieved, but th...n her eyes widened and she pointed at the hole and I turned around and then suddenly I knew why she was obsessed because from then on I was too.It was as big as a baby's arm, and it was hanging there like some pervert's wall decoration just inches from my face. All our stories, all the things I had talked about doing, was gone from my mind and I. ’ Kami smiled. ‘If I had a credit for every time someone told me that…’ She brushed past them and towards the corridor outside. Hrelle just shook his head. ‘Best not try to argue with her, T’Varik, believe me.’ In his office, Kami took a seat, sitting on it backwards and resting her arms and chin on the back of it, her tail swishing gently behind her, while Hrelle leaned against his desk and gave T’Varik his full attention, having worked out that something was bothering her – and that he was. Don't stay out after dark,bla, bla, bla.'Mum and David were married about a year and I was three days short ofmy 18th birthday when the next terrible day happened. I came home fromthe cinema to find a police car and an ambulance, just leaving myhouse.I ran in but was stopped by a policewoman.'Who are you?'Tony Summers, I live here. What's going on?''Are you Mrs Roberts's son?'Yes.''Come and sit over here. I need to talk to you.'Mum was dead. She had been washing her hair and used a hair dryer. Things had warmed up, most of the snow was gone and the ground was drying out so changing the windows wouldn't be an exercise in freezing the crew's butts off or chewing up the yard with their ladders and scaffolding. Greg and I were grinning from ear to ear—we wouldn't have to use a rented bucket truck or, worse yet, climb that rickety old ladder to change the screens and storms any more!Thursday afternoon I was sitting in the cafeteria studying for midterms when Val sat down across from me..