"You probably think I'm terrible..."Laura felt her face grow warm. Millie's bluntness took her by surprise. The idea of making it with another woman w...s repugnant to Laura, but she didn't want to say that to Millie. It would humiliate the woman."Have you ever tried it with another woman?" Laura said in a squeaky voice. She cleared her throat. "I never..." No, I've never done it," Millie said quickly. "I said I was thinking, well, really, wondering what it would be like to go to bed with a. . she's dead. Just like that. No more homework. No more going to school. No more getting a goodnight kiss from her mother ... just dead."Jim's fingers left the keyboard. "OK, sure that's sad, but she IS from your world. What does that have to do with this case?"Hector didn't frown or give any other indication that he was upset."She was sitting in an ice cream parlor, over in midtown, not in the hood. She went there every day to get away from the hood, so she could do her homework without being. Paul and I simply shared a fist-bump, and then he moved over alongside Brick.“Thank you!” Cathy called out as she waved from behind her royal blue Ludwig drum kit.“Ready?” I said as I looked around the stage at my six co-musicians. Their smiles told me all I needed to know, so I turned to the crowd and asked, “Are you ready! Ready to enter the...”Right then, Lisa and Paul, along with Lynette blasted off with the opening notes to our best known song, Danger Zone. The crowd’s explosive roar told. Ariston's first business was to hire a room for himself and fill his belly with meat and good beer.His second business, after satisfying his stomach, was to sell off the two captured horses, his compensation for nearly having been skewered by the thieves. His pouch jingled brightly as he left the barn of the horse merchant. The price he got would provide for his needs until he settled himself in his new home.His third business brought a great smile to his face. He cleansed himself in the ritual.