She just got here from Kansas... And you look like you just woke up," he says with a smirk at my scantily clad body. "Ah, yeah...I didn't have time to...change since my phone went off," I mumble without explaining what the call was. Usually when I tell people I am a writer they give me this "oh poor you" look and mutter their false admirations. I'll skip that part thank you! Theo and his friends all flop on the couch and flip on a sports game before chatting back and forth. I wander to my bag and. "I'm getting a water. Anyone need anything?"The room was silent but everyone still stared at him. He quickly glanced down to see if perhaps his fly was down. It wasn't."Do I have a booger?" he asked as he checked his nose. Finding nothing, he walked to the kitchen, pulled out a bottle of water and took a long swallow. Adam wasn't a drinker but he started to understand why his Dad would have a beer or two after a particularly long day. Adam pasted the cheerful smile back on his face and walked. He flies whenever I do. When we’re not flying he stays at my house, where I feed and take care of him. My wife and two daughters love him to death and treat him as the family dog. Once a month or so he’s required to go to a compound with a handler to keep up with his training. We all miss him terribly when he’s gone.And then there’s the FBI. They see me as a potential weak link in Mr. Rancuri’s chain that they can exploit. They always try to approach me when I’m alone. They always try to offer. I needed somewhere else to store dry wood out of the weather so I started exploring the remains of the old barn. I did it carefully as rattlesnakes loved to sun themselves in dry lumber and had no compunction against sinking their fangs into anyone that disturbed them.I managed to "snake" out a few nice 4x4 beams and plenty of sawn board lumber to construct a lean-to beside the house. There I stacked more and more firewood, first from the coppice and later, as the weather began to pack in, from.