”The man gulped, and backed away from the car, heading for the ambulance that just pulled up. More locals had also shown up, and cops were starting ...o swarm the area, pushing back the lookie-loos who’d started gathering around.“What’s not lucky is our lead went dead with this guy,” Taylor said, putting his hands on hips.“He’s connected to someone. Like you said, he was transporting this stuff. If he was the one using it, why would he risk hauling around a trunk full of military grade. That beautiful body, delicate and frail, shook with her sobs, but she still kept on, never once flinching from her destiny.This weather was dreadful enough, she reflected, but the Winter would be impossible for her to survive. It could remain many degrees below freezing for weeks, even months, on end in these parts. Many a time had she and Martha been forced to remain indoors, looking out at the white wilderness, for weeks at a time. No mortal could live in the great outdoors through that white. " Dave just stood with a dumbfounded expression as my wife took him by the hand, leading him toward the door. Inside the car, Dave responded, "You two almost had me going for a moment." I had intentionally put one of my wife's bags in the front seat. Dave was sitting in the backseat next to my wife during the half-hour ride to the airport. As Dave spoke, my wife moved her hand to let it rest on the upper thigh of his leg closest to her. Dave paused and continued, "Your going to make my flight. The 911 is a hell of a car, nice and fast.The wind blows my hair back along the top of the car. I clampthe Zima bottle between my sexy thighs."I may be bad," I say to myself and the wind, "but I feelgooood!"I enter the highway. It's pretty much abandoned at this time ofthe night. I kick on the CD player, and open the next bottle ofZima. As I drive, Axel Rose is singing about riding theNighttrain.Oh boy, am I ever. At this point I stop thinking about where Iam going. It's not WHERE I care.