It was so very silent in his apartment and yet so very strange, as though he were the only person on earth, as if the other tenants in his building ha... mysteriously vanished, and all that was left were the shrills of the few night-time insects that had made it to the bridge of winter and the temporary swoosh of cars that passed along the avenue down below.Perhaps he wandered between the lands of the living and the dead but did not know it yet, as there was no handbook or guidebook or map to. When she was done, Brandi dropped to her hands and knees, sobbing with shameand pain. It had been a brutal effort and she knew that she could never doit again. She wondered when she was going to get the infection that antibiotics couldn'tcure. A deeply stressed Brandi was certain that it was only a matter of time.Once she got it, from that moment onwards she would slowly and disgustinglyrot from the crotch outwards. Chapter 15 - No Pain No Gain Although she still looked good, Melody moved. They found some old wire, pushed the key through and when it fell on the floor slid the wire under the door and pulled it back through and opened it that way.” she explained. Pushing the key out was no problem with the long knife from my fishermen’s tool, but finding some wire might take some doing. The answer lay in the old wire bird cage somewhat had discarded long ago. The metal was pliable and I extracted a strand which I managed to fashion a hook on to gently pull the key back into the. Letme see if I can get hold of him, see what he says."I stopped buckling my pants to look up. "Ralph, I can't ask anyone torisk themselves for me. I swear, I'm hotter than fresh lava."Too late: he was already punching in the numbers. "Get real," hescoffed. "A woman on the run with two kids needs help. The worst thatcan happen is that he'll say no. Hell, this should help him decide." Hesnapped my picture with his phone.Ralph spoke with the man on the other end, telling him the sequence ofevents.