She had no choice.”“What’s your name?”“Fat Ass Faye. I mean Faye Elliott from Houston.”“Give us your parent’s phone where we can call ...hem.”“I’m staying here for the week with my Aunt Susan, Susan Barton who teaches at the Junior College.”The policeman asked something else, but my eyes closed and I dozed back off. After some time, I awoke in a hospital room with Aunt Susan sitting by the bed.”“Faye, I am so sorry that I wasn’t able to look after you, but I am here now and your parents are. In Quebec, méchouis are fairly common. As a matter of fact, I bought the barbecue unit from a snowbird who used to do them as a sideline." Snowbird... ?" Yeah, that's an interesting phenomenon here in North America. In most of Canada and also in some of the more northern states, the weather in winter is really awful ... so quite a few retirees and some seasonal workers come south for the winter. In November, all you see on the road are caravans and trailers, all headed south, then in April,. So I figured what the heck, I have workedeverywhere else just about, why not at a woman's store. I started there on the first of November, and everything was great.Everyone was nice, I could always stay in the backroom, not have to dealwith customers, and if I ever did get my courage up I even had a discountto work with. Having started on the 1st of November, I missed out onHalloween. Everyone that worked that day talked about how fun it was.Everyone had on costumes, because the mall had. And others are refugees from the Mosley Station takeover. All of them have been worked over pretty roughly.”I could tell that Holland was not happy. “That’s an understatement, Captain. Things like this need to be addressed.”“I’ll do what I can Doc. What little I can do.”He was interrupted by a nurse who stepped out of one of the rooms. “Doctor Holland.”He turned and noted the room she had come out of. “Dammit, I was afraid of this.” he walked into the room with Olivet and myself trailing behind.