. and yet to never get more than the vaguest image of what it was that sometimes stalked us.The closest that we came to any idea of what it was that w...tched our camps in the night came as we emerged from the harsh, blackened landscapes of the Wastes proper and into a more classic scrub-land that seemed to hug to the northern coast of the Vendigroth Wastes: Once, during a glance back over my shoulder, I saw a figure upon a distant rocky outcropping. It looked low slung to the ground, with a wide. “She told her dad that you two were screwing? Oh my God!”“Yeah. He told her she can’t see me.”“What are you going to do, Big Brother?”“Right now? There isn’t anything I CAN do. Her dad will never let me in the house and even if he did, what could I say? I told Kara to go talk to her mom because her mom knows we’ve been fooling around.”“Her mom knows? And was OK with it?”“I’m not as smart as I thought I was, Squirt,” I said ruefully. “Kara’s mom noticed her wet hair, and that she didn’t smell. For once she shut off the stereo as she left the parking lot, so she could concentrate on getting to Patty's house as quickly as she could.She was still a couple miles away from her destination, on a fairly isolated stretch of road, when disaster struck. The Lexus did indeed have a lot of miles on it, and it chose this moment to suffer a broken timing belt. The engine immediately seized after trying briefly to keep running with multiple parts working at cross purposes. Collette was just able to. I was then pulled to my feet, and I was looking into the face of the man from this morning. Before I knew it, I was shoved over to the kitchen, where I was roughly forced down into one of my kitchen chairs. I hit the chair so hard I cried out as my hands were crushed against my back and the cross bars of the wood."What the fuck do you want?" I asked.He just stood there staring at me, and then he stepped forward and his foot came down on my left one and I cried out."Ouch my foot!" I said in.