At first she’d thought that it might have been Catgirl. She’d been bombarding Batgirl with increasingly emotional text and phone messages in the t...ree days since that ‘incident’ in her new sports car. Batgirl had been so annoyed at the time that she’d left her new ‘partner’ sat in the car without a word as she’d stormed into her flat without a backward glance. After all, why should Catgirl think that she had some sort of God-given right to inflict her own peculiar brand of erotic tortures on. He’s the guy who founded L’Oréal and did invent the first suntan lotion eighty some odd solar revolutions ago.” Looking up and seeing the Cretellian once again smiling, Carl realized he had been teasing and sighed resignedly.“Look, I’m sorry for being defensive but I’m a still a little puzzled as to why they picked me ... I mean there are literally billions of other choices they could have made, and I’d imagine there is a historian, college professor or even a god-damned Jeopardy champion that. He was at a honky tonk just outside of town. This time he was sitting in a booth with two ladies. I use the term ladies advisedly. One was a little older and looked like she had been rode hard and put away wet. The other was our age but looked like she had lived a hard life. I stood in front of the booth until the threesome noticed me and I could see Bobby sort of cringe when he saw me. At my suggestion the two women left Bobby and I alone. It cost me a couple of drinks to get them to leave.. Genrico had headed off to relay orders to the group that would come up behind the church.“What does that say about you?” Joseph replied with a smile. “After all, it is my duty. You are doing this just to be spiteful.”“Spiteful?” Julia asked angrily. “I do it so you will have someone with a bit of sense to protect you if the need arises. Genrico would follow you blindly into the abyss and so would Jonathan. That leaves me to be the voice of reason.”Joseph laughed aloud at the thought.“Yes, the.