‘Unfortunately, you are correct, Di Xin.’ The deceased king grinned. ‘However,’ Yanluowang continued, ‘there are currently no openings for s...meone of your…talents.’ ‘Are you sure? Have you any need of a god of extracting confessions? I was quite skilled at that, as I recall. Or perhaps a god of good governance? ‘That pathetic, little, disloyal insect Ji Fa will certainly need divine assistance… And I shall hear his prayers and watch his rituals and feast upon his offerings and reject his every. “Keep goin down the main drag about ten blocks and you'll find Rick's. Nice little diner, open 24/7, except for when they feel like closing. If you're lucky, they're open. It's Ruby that runs the place now. A real bleedin heart, that one. Bet she'll fix you up with somethin.”“Thanks” Sean began. “...I didn't catch your name?”“Call me Jim. And don't thank me. You're still better off gettin out of here.”“Well, thanks anyway, Jim. I'm Sean.”The weird old man ignored his reply. “Always liked that. I don't say things like that if I don't mean it.'' For a second though he was going to kiss me, but instead he just went to find the others. I stood at the bar and watched him. I couldn't hold it any longer, and what he'd just said made it ten times worse. I walked over to where they were standing. Before I did anything else, I approached my brother and told him how I felt. He wasn't happy but he understood, and I could see the smallest glint in his eye. I put my drink down and turned to Matt.. They would stick around until some other summer job paying more came along or school started back. When I was around 25 we had this young cute boy working at the store (I’ll call him Bret) and he followed me around like a puppy all the girls just laughed but what a little sweetheart he was. He had a friend (I’ll call him Joey) that would come in just about every day didn’t stay long if owner was there but if not those two would pester the heck out of me. One good thing was that they were always.