"Well tell you what I can at least get the car wash ready for you."Dave looked at the screen, there was one set of numbers between the motherand Chad ...hat he thought were their amount of drive. So, he just took thenumbers and reversed them, no mother should hate her son and no son shouldfeel like they must be that much of a helper to their parent.The car started up and the mom leaned back to rest a bit, Chad of coursewas bouncing up and down like he always did. Misty really wished her sonwas. And so does Elyse. Jennifer and Josie only wanted the little guy you have on your lap.”Stephie played with Jesse until lunchtime. The three of us ate lunch and then went for a brief walk in the frigid air.“Damn, Yankee, you saved the coldest day of the year for me! I didn’t really notice so much just walking into the house from the car, but now? Wow!”“Jesse can’t stay out too long,” I said. “We’ll just go a couple of blocks. But I want him to get used to Chicago weather.”“See Francesca?” Jesse. They made us pay dearly for our resistance. I'm not proud to say it,but we're their slaves now. It's that simple." Coyote asked the villagers whether Brown Betty was vulnerable to anythingnon-human. If she was, they said, they weren't aware of it. He thanked themfor their information and went on his way. Bad girls, he thought. He lovedto make bad girls kick. If he didn't get killed, this could be fun. He trudged on through wood and meadow for about a week. Then, early one morning,he came to the. It was just after 8:00 when they cautiously approached the disabled SUV in the road.Bill couldn't hear the orders that Jones was giving from that position but he could surmise from his angry gestures. They had lost 10 men so far and hadn't even seen anyone to fight yet. Bill knew from experience how demoralizing and frustrating that could be. He did a quick count and figured they had 12 men left and four of them were changing a tire. Bill looked back at them and saw they were arguing about.