Minus the dejected look she presently wore."Key!" She whispered fiercely as they drew near. "They didn't even give me a real gun!"Kiyone had to clamp ...own hard on the giggle. Seeing the painted wooden 'butt' hanging out of Miho's dress holster.Well now, it certainly seemed obvious which of them the Jurians considered the more dangerous!"Daddy look good!" Mayuka quipped. Surprising everyone by not running to him, keeping her place by Mihoshi's side."You too pumpkin." He beamed at her with. ”My father’s name is Henry not Ted. Ted is our neighbor’s name though! Mom must have thought that I was Ted so I walked over to where Mom was lying. I could see that she had on those tiny eye protection glasses that she wears when she goes in the tanning booths at the salon. I have a couple of pair of them too and you can’t see shit with them on. I swear you can look directly at the sun and it might look like a candle flame.Mom said, “Come on Ted stop fooling around and put that nice cock of. He left the flowers on the grave andstarted to walk away when the robin started to chirp. He looked at thebird and saw the rhythmic nodding of its head, as if the bird wastelling him it was all right to have a life beyond the anger he felt.The house felt empty now that Michelle and Beth were gone, only theghosts of them, still vivid in his memory, remained. The silence of thehouse was like a hammer against my psyche as I sat and looked at thepicture of my wife and daughter on the wall. They. Dom and I helped him into the shower stall and he removed his loin cloth."This plaster strapping is going to look a bit grotty by the time they remove it." It's no sense in trying to keep it dry mate, we'll just have to mop up the water when you get out."Ernie adjusted the hand spray and set about enjoying his first shower since the accident. "Christ that feels great, I must have smelt like the crutch of an Afghan camel driver's underdaks."We all had a bit of a chuckle. "That's putting it.