I feel powerful. And then I see them, a young couple in their early twenties sitting at one of the tables that would line up for me nicely. He’s a g...od looking clean-cut kind of guy, she seems bubbly and innocent. I motion to hubby, he smiles and nods. We watch them for a time sipping our drinks. We decide that they seem to be on a first or second date, fun yet obviously nervous & unsure of everything that they do. She gets up and walks past us towards the bathrooms. He watches her go and we. I nervously deign to ask Amanda who replies. "The cleaners!" I try to stay calm.Hardly have I had chance to sit down when, with supreme confidence, Justine waltzes in. Today she has let her hair down and is wearing a smart grey jacket. In contrast, the lower half of her body reveals a pair of black knickers, black suspenders and black fishnet stockings. At the protrusion of her shapely legs sit a pair of shiny, black, stiletto shoes, the high heels of which are shortly to be obeyed."Hi Kris,. So now you get todecide, how you want to live."He drank the last of his coffee."You can be afraid of whatever is coming, every second of every day forthe rest of your life, but it won't be much like living. Or," hesmiled, "you can go for things, try things, different things. Thingsyou might have thought about, maybe dreamed about, growing up, or evennow, when you're all alone."For a long time I just stared at him. Words disappeared from my brain.Not a single one came to mind."One more. It was the best I could do for a good faith gift.“So far they’ve only come out at night, I don’t expect to meet any of them today, I just want to leave the scrap and then go home. We’ll come back tomorrow and see if they took it. If they did, then I’ll come back again with another gift, and see if they’ll take it in person.”“You didn’t see what these things did to my dogs,” Kadavy snarled, his free hand moving to his gun. “My vote is dropping a God damned Scud on that barn.”“Despite the way it.