I hope you brought a good coat with you’. She smiled and said, ‘Do you have any idea how hard it is to find coats meant for Philly in March, in Te...as’ ‘It’s almost impossible’. We chatted for a while about general things, it’s hard to talk about important things in an airport, then I took her to a hotel close to where I lived, that had a homey atmosphere, a great restaurant and where I could book long term. I waited in the foyer lounge while she settled in, then we went over to my home, where. Then the damn doorbell rang. As I tried to ignore it and Dwayne start to swear. “What’s the problem?” I moaned.“That’s probably my boss. If we stay in a house for a while he figures we’ve got a sell going so he stops by to heip close the deal.”“Damn, maybe he’ll go away,” I said.“Nope. He’ll keep hitting the doorbell until someone answers,” Dwayne said as he nervously started picking up his stuff.I told him, “Wait and let me see if he’ll leave.” Getting off the bed, I button up my blouse and. He moved it. ‘You’ve been wounded, you’ll be taken back to Blighty soon. Back with your family, now won’t that be fine. Now open your mouth and I’ll give you a drink, you’ll feel better.’ He then felt water, refreshing on his parched tongue. He thought to himself, Blighty — England. That meant a serious wound, but he was alive. He would be envied by his mates. Some of the men at the front would wave a foot in the air above the trench when the sergeant wasn’t around to see, hoping to have toes. The beast wanted to hunt these people. I thought of trying to stop it, rein it in, pull it further into the woods to find some deer, but decided against it, my beast needed to feed and people would satisfy its hungers better than any wild animals I'd find in the woods.I stepped quietly through the woods, moving past branches without touching them, stepping over twigs on the ground, my shoulders hunched over, head low, nose out far, working in the direction of the smoke. I saw the soft glow of.