Is there any way to call off the dogs?”“About the topic that we were discussing last week. Have you come to some sort of a conclusion?” The prop...r answers would give you some much needed relief.”Virgil has been giving it considerable thought since the beatings started and concluded that he was screwed. But he was going to trial next week, so he figured he would wait it out until after the trial had ended. There was no way they were going to kill him, without finding out where he hid the drugs. And today Marc decides he is going to find out exactly why his calls are going unanswered and why Kacy hasn’t been to school.As he approaches the house he notices that both their vehicles are parked in the driveway, which doesn’t strike a chord at being odd, but unless Kacy is sick it doesn’t explain anything. He knocks at the door and waits. The waiting turns into several long minutes and after a few more knocks, he tries the door handle.Jiggling it, it turns easily in his hand.Odd.He pushes. I’ll probably make a whole bunch more before I star to settle down and become an adult, but that won’t be until I graduate. Until then I’m going to do things and get them out of my system so that later in life when I’m a wife and mother I’m not looking back and saying “I wish I’d have done that.”I was silent for a bit and then said “I guess I can see your point. In fact I think I should adopt your philosophy. I need to start dating others.”I stood up and said “Nice talking to you Janice. See. Then the boulderslammed into him. Then the anvil slammed into the boulder. It took a long time to cut the netting with his teeth and then slowly, painfullypull himself out from under the boulder and anvil. He had been completely flattened,and when he got out, his body looked and sounded like an out-of-tune concertina.He made a very annoying whee-rraww, whee-rraww, whee-rraww soundas he painfully hopped toward the highway. Part II In a green clearing not far away, the three Sisters raised.