Will you be staying at your aunt’s farm?’ ‘Yes! And it is lovely. I haven’t been since I was a boy, but I and my sister spent the summer holid...ys there most every year. I expect I won’t be climbing as many trees now as I did in those days.’ He gestured to his wounded leg and laughed. ‘I always said I’d stay at that farm forever if I had someone to share it with. But I supposed we’ll have to sell it. There’s no one to take care of it.’ He began to tell me of the decline of his father’s business,. I had been electrocuted often enough, but only recreationally. Instantaneous, electrical paralysis felt novel, in a way. I wondered if I should learn to use it somehow. While I considered the new sensation, the man quickly wrapped an arm around my waist and brought his other hand around my chest to choke me, presumably so I wouldn’t scream. The two of them stuffed me into their car while an indescribable mix of numbness and pain set in. ===== ‘Detectives Hayabusa and Yoshida.’ Shimizu laid a. ‘A…a feature story! I-I couldn’t do that.’ ‘Why not? It’s not that different from what you’re already doing. You gather the facts and put them together so they tell the story.’ ‘You…you really think I could?’ ‘Piece of cake.’ He gave her shoulder a squeeze. He assigned her a story on changes planned in educating emotionally disturbed kids. He’d amassed a considerable amount of material on the topic, having planned to do the story himself, and gave it all to Sheila. He had several reasons for. And I was dead meat.Cindy and the whole gang escorted Beth and me to my car.The team was waiting for us...Chuck stepped forward and motioned to me, but Cindy beat me to it and, looking like a toy poodle telling a mastiff to get the hell off her yard, snarled at Chuck, "Look, you animals, you're not going to get away with this!"Chuck held up both hands, palms out clearly taken aback at her reaction, "Hey, we're not here to start a fight!"He looked at me, "I know we told you that a loss was going.