Austin had said, “Since your girlfriend Barbara two-timed you with another guy, I think that you should do the same thing to her.” Of course I as...umed that he’d meant that I should have an affair with a girl. Until that is, we went up to his apartment for a quick smoke. We’d passed the joint back and forth a couple of times. Austin stood up in front of me and pulled down the front of his bathing suit. I wasn’t much of an athlete so had not spent much time in locker rooms so I’d never seen a. Most people who heard such sounds would have immediately pictured a horse trotting toward them. But as you have probably figured out by now, I am not like most people. That was why I had absolutely no idea what to expect as I turned around. What the fuck? I gasped as I spotted the source of the sound. Though I had not known what to expect, I could never have predicted the scene that presented itself to me. Instead of seeing a horse trotting toward me, I was a giraffe gallop through the crowd,. “The only other lead the Russians will have is Frank ‘the Fish’ who is also dead, but the news has identified him as a Patriarca wise-guy, so I would imagine that Carmen ‘the Cheese Man’ DiNunzio will be visited by some of their people wanting to know how Frank ‘the Fish’ was involved with the Magic Haters. Things should be very interesting here in Boston, and in Salem for the next several weeks,” I told her.“What about those in Washington?” she asked.“What can they do that the Russians can’t?. She was an intimidating physical specimen. I was sure that in a fair fight, I'd take her easily. Sure. Maybe at 500 yards, if I had a sniper rifle in my hands, I'd take her easily.She taken to running the company like a stallion takes charge of a bunch of unruly mares. Round 'em up. Bite on a few necks until they learn who's in charge. And from then on it's smooth sailing – if you don't mind the mixed metaphors.Io, of course, took charge of driving us up to the canyon lands, where the Power.