If for nothing else, to go to the drugstore thing for me. Then again, I might be able to drive myself. I didn't expect that to be the case, but like S...lvia said, I was a tough old broad.I was still getting shot up with God only knew what, but I needed it for the pain. Everything went along with people being extremely nice to me until Wednesday. That is when they started to get bossy. I was told they would not release me without someone agreeing to at least check on me. And that same someone had. " He said in a dry tone of voice. "It went into an interest bearing account at five percent compound interest. The account balance is currently just over four point four million dollars." Holy Christ." I exclaimed. I sat back in the chair and thought about what was involved. Services would have to be run. I'd seen the lawyer's aerial photograph. The road was gravel and devastated by wash-outs. It would have to be dug out, properly filled in and paved. Hopefully all the services could be run. And, the parent would now have an investment on the books and they could also get rid of the entire group of employees without a loss. In fact, the only real concession was to become a guaranteed customer for two years with a large initial payment. It would be enough to run the new company for 8 months, after which they would have to find new customers or investments.There were now thousands of details to work out. Hugh planned to rent a second car and do some shopping for new offices today.. Apparently Kasumi had remembered to thank her. (Not sexually, but emotionally.)For the record, Zatanna was one of the names chosen on the flight back, and she invited Kasumi along to reciprocate.I had reserved some fairly expensive rooms at the hotel/casino/convention center where the competition was being held, so the hotel provided us with a couple of limos to pick us up. It wasn't my first time in a limousine, but it was rare enough for me to just sit back and enjoy the ride to the hotel.We.