Now, I have a plan, here's what we need to do..." Ephus started.______________________________________________________Quinn was starting to pace, she ...as far more worried about Ephus than she'd let on. Bast, Serket and Thoth had stayed after Freya and Göndul had left.Bast was still expecting a message from one of them. She, too, was worried, she'd seen Ephus become preoccupied and single-minded like this before. It was good though she knew he would keep going to the point of death.Almost as if. What he didn't do in eight years you did in three minutes. I liked the feeling and I want to feel it again." You are sure about this?" Honey, I'm absolutely dead sure."I gave Matty directions to my apartment, finished my lunch and got back to work. Matty was waiting in the parking lot when I got home from work. She got out of her car with a couple of shopping bags and followed me into my apartment and then asked me where the bathroom was. I pointed it out and she and her shopping bags. “I think now you sort of understand what I mean.” Carl continued after watching William’s face contort into a look of stark realization. “Yeah, I think I do. “ “Good. There’s something else, too.” Carl’s voice seemed to go lower as he adopted a tone of utmost seriousness. “I said that John doesn’t know what to do, right? Well, I reckon he’s just about given up.” “Given up?! What do you mean?” William said in a rather panicky voice. “Chill, I didn’t mean anything drastic. I just meant that he’s. At most, you waited until well after the sounds died away, then maybe you satisfied your petty curiosity and investigated, carefully.Her path would take her right past me. I melted back into the little alcove and waited. The sound of her shoes crunching on the plaster and glass scattered on the sidewalk was easy to hear over the muted sounds of the main part of the city: an occasional siren, a jet passing far overhead, a truck honking several blocks over.The uncertain footfalls came closer,.