I was thinking about the years of therapy that I had undertaken the last time I had gotten out Chelmsford. During my therapy I had worked through the ...ears of continued threats of violence and blackmail which had caused me to adopt the persona of Michele, the transvestite whore. I was feeling perplexed, remorseful and angry all at the same time."Fuck him Carmel!" I shouted at her."He came here to get sexual gratification; and that's what he got! He doesn't give a fuck about me and I don't give. "You're lucky I found you and treated you when I did," Dorian said. "Otherwise you'd either be dead or sucking blood clots now." What the hell is that supposed to mean?"Dorian's face had the grim look of a doctor about to give a patient the news that he had terminal cancer. "Kid, I really hate to be the one to have to tell you this," he said, almost as if he were about to do just that. But Tyler never could have expected what he said after that. "Your girlfriend's a vampire."Tyler wasn't sure. “Are you armed, sir?”“Yes sir, I am.”“You didn’t shoot him?”“Nope. I didn’t have to. He had a knife, but he made up for it by being really slow and stupid.”The cop grinned. “You’re right about that! He’s been slow and stupid all his life.”The cop pulled out a pair of handcuffs and rolled the robber onto his stomach. “How you doin’, Jimmy?” He snapped the cuffs on and yanked Jimmy to his feet. He walked the dazed robber, who was limping badly, to the patrol car and shoved him into the back seat,. So I centered myself again, shaking my head to myself over how slippery keeping center is.#1: #2: #2: #3: #4: #3: #2: We all sensed ourselves lose center from the shock. The lump of ki and the flashes from our hand as we were yanking in back disappeared from our awareness.#2: #2 centered himself/us.#1: We all sensed, with whatever the new sense is, the lump of ki come into existence, then felt it poke against our knee, about as hard as a real finger would.#1: #4: #1: #4: #1: #3: #1: #1: #1: It.