Or rather claw. She held up a stiletto-tipped finger and blew on the nail. If this had been a cartoon Jackson suspected there'd have been an exaggerat...d glint of light to emphasise the pointyness. Bab looked over her shoulder at him and smiled.Jackson didn't like that smile at all.He struggled in another ineffectual attempt to burst out of the bubble. It drifted slowly across the bedroom, about five or six feet off the ground. Bab stood up and walked over to meet the bubble in the centre of the. Steph panted as she angled her head to look at Julia’s photo. It were as though the blonde woman’s eyes were on her. The cute little smile the woman wore took on another meaning as if she were egging her on.“Ah,” Stephanie gasped, drinking the beautiful woman in, her hands working quicker than they ordinarily would.Panting now, she imagined stripping the woman’s floral dress back. A quick, sordid fumble in her hotel room maybe? Wherever it was it was fucking hot and she couldn’t get enough of. ”“Why’s he care, Hiram?”“Reverend Venerable keeps one woman behind when the study hour is over. Different woman every week.”“Oh?”“Keeps her for an hour, individual counseling.”“Oh.”It was just luck that I was walking my Market Street beat and happened to be near the north end of town. I heard a roar, angry roar, from No-Name. What was left of No-Name.I drew my Army Peacemaker and fired a shot straight up. Cayuse would hear it, should hear it, and come running. I kept the revolver in my right. “This is going to be a blast, let’s go” he said. Mel explained that she had things to do here and would not be joining us. “Yeah, I kind of figured that, with all the stuff I got” Jeff said. “Jeff, I want her restrained as much as possible. Here are the keys to the cuffs you will need to take them off when you are in public but when you get back to the car I want her in handcuffs at least, ok? Oh, one more thing.” she said as she reached in one of the bags and pulled out a white leather collar.