"I couldn't fall asleep at all last night. So I came out here with a thick blanket and sat in this recliner. I turned on the television but couldn't f...nd the remote." Right here," he pulled it out from a pocket sewn onto the left side of the comfortable chair."Hmmmmmmm, I have to remember to look there but I hadn't watch TV since 9-11. Last night there was a Spanish speaking movie on and it was about dancing. I was reading the subtitles but they never said anything about the name of the movie.. For a few days Sharley and I did a shoot in Death Valley. That was almost always in either the early morning or late at night under lights, since it was about a million degrees any other time of the day. It was kind of weird. Who wears corsets and heels in the desert?”Jack laughed at that. “Make sure to show me the pictures.”“Before we got there, we picked up a pregnancy kit, and Sharley peed on the stick when we got there. When it showed positive, she called her doctor and scheduled a visit on. "We'll always have Paris."Oh please! Have you no concept of why the English and Americans, who havehardly ever been to Paris or at best spent no more than a day in it, comeup with bullshit like that? Or of why the most famous French quotationabout Paris, in a country not known for its early risers, is "Parisappartient ? ceux qui se l?vent t?t."?There was an English joke that hinted at the truth: "How many Frenchmendoes it take to defend Paris?" The answer was "I don't know, it's neverbeen. " Brad's voice matched his actions as he drove away in his dented Lincoln. As his tail lights dipped out of sight, I ran to the unmoving clump. At first, I thought it was a bear, but as I neared it, it developed into a huge wolf. It was laying on it's right side, facing me. As I stepped up to it. It's eye lids fluttered open. It's grey eyes tried to focus on me. When it did, recognition like a human came to them. "Calder Balor," a deep, ruff, demonic voice pierced my head, "I need your blood.".