She caught the man's form at the steering wheel out of the corner of her eye and turned off the car and checked her face once more in the mirror befor... getting out. BAM, her door hit his car, taken suddenly by the wind, "Oh, I'm so sorry," she said as she watched him get out to come inspect the damage. "That's a nasty little dent," he said as he eyed her as much as he eyed the car door, "I'm so sorry, let me take care of the damages," and she looked up to catch him gazing at her, "Tell you. ’ His aunt walked across the room and took the phone. ‘Dave, what’s up?’ she asked. Tommy couldn’t hear what his uncle was saying, but judging from the look on his aunt’s face, it wasn’t good news. ‘I’m sure it couldn’t be avoided,’ she snapped, then listened, her lips pressed together in a straight line. ‘David, you haven’t been home more than three or four days at a time in months, isn’t it about time you tell your boss that you have a family?’ She listened again, her face reddening. ‘Why. How does a reporter learn such things?" I may not be a very successful reporter," I said, "but I am a good one.I notice stuff others don't, that they don't seem to even want tonotice. Over the years I've seen things I would've sworn were impossibleonce upon a time, but they all turned out to be real. Yet you might bethe strangest of them all, a powerful witch living as a suburbanhousewife." I thought I'd been careful, but if you were able to track me down thenI haven't been as careful as I'd. His hammer had not reached full cock when the bartender reached across the bar and thumped the drunk on the head with a small cudgel. The drunk collapsed to the floor, and the bartender came around the bar to pull the drunk to a chair where he could sleep off at least some of his drunk. When he finished that chore, the bartender returned to his place and turned to me."Thanks, Mister, for distracting that drunk until I could take care of the problem. What can I get you? It is on the house."I.