The text said to get showered and wait for a taxi to honk three times. Afew hours later, that dreaded taxi arrived. I meekly got out of myapartment. I...looked around for anything or anyone suspicious. The nightwas quiet and no one was around. All I saw was a huge old school yellowtaxi, idling. In the darkness I saw two people in it.A fat, greasy man exited the back seat of the taxi. He told me to getaboard. He was scary looking. And his voice had the typical mafia accentyou hear on TV. "Swallow. It hadn't been worn by everyone and the meaning escaped him. We tried searching under 'carnation' or 'pink' but nothing helpful showed up on any of the search engines. There is an old saying: 'once is chance, twice is coincidence and three times is enemy action.' The little flower obviously had some meaning. We checked out a few more on the list who had websites. We found two others who displayed the badge in photographs of themselves. One was a German politician and the other an American. "Sandra must have come to her senses, because she patted Reinie and kissed her on the cheek, saying, "I'm sorry, Reinie, I guess I lost my head for a moment. Uh, yeah, Jimmie and I've been doin' it since we moved in (I realized Sandra could lie when she wanted to), and I guess you've got as much right to him as I do." It occurred to me that she was still angry but had to admit Reinie made sense.I felt like I was not there, since they were talking like I weren't. I interjected, "Uh, girls,. Dahra portaled over to Lissa's old room precisely at nine, and knocked on the old graffiti-stained door. Lissa answered. She was wearing an old pair of brown shorts and a loose-fitting tan tanktop. Dahra was wearing an old pair of green pants and an olive sleeveless knit shirt. Both were ready to go to work."I'm so glad you could make it," sighed Lissa. "All my old college friends have left campus, so I had no one here I could ask to help moving." Couldn't you have asked some of your.