Oog had gotten it from his grandfather when he had become too feeble to wield it. Oog’s father had died before Oog could remember, but his grandfath...r had told him that his father had died protecting the tribe while they were hunting. That meant that it was also Oog’s job to protect the tribe, but he could not do anything about the thunder, he could not turn aside the lightning. ‘Why do the lightnings not strike us down?’ Oog asked Brin. ‘I have commanded them to stay away from us for a time,. “Six pm. You had a rough night. How you feelin’?”“Little dazed but okay. Where’s Shawn?”“He went to the store to pick up food, I’m grilling tonight. Do you remember what happened last night?”“I remember being at the party and drinking….a lot….then the room was fuzzy and I saw colors blending and get brighter. What the hell was I on?”“Some guys had LSD at the party.”“Great. Then there was some chick that started making out with me. I don’t even remember how she got there. Then I remember. Just the family."Everything was fucking insane: the one who was my best friend, the one who I deliberately treated like garbage and trashed in a can.He was gone.Quite frankly, I do not even remember the rest of the words my mother and I exchanged at the phone: all I could recall, was the emptiness possessing me.Sometimes, I used to imagine him with a wife, two beautiful daughters and a labrador retriever: happy, without his former best friend. Such a pathetic alibi, absolutely, but it was also. “Being buying up the local shopping complex?” he questioned as he moved his vehicle into the line of traffic. She didn’t say anything till she had got herself settled. “I’m not a silly cunt”, she smilingly said. He turned and smiled. “I don’t suppose your cunt is silly, however, as I haven’t had the pleasure of observing it I don’t know even if you have hair around it. I will tell you this Sally that I hate women who shave. Maybe they think they can improve on nature, but as far as I’m.