If you are cooperative and hand him over now, I will consider letting you die quickly. If you do not, I will take you with me, and spend a decade pain...ng you in ways you cannot imagine before devouring your body and then drinking your soul. It would seem to be a simple choice. What say you?* replied the demon. ‘My defenses will last long enough for me to return you to your pit for enough years that you will never threaten the likes of me or my apprentice again before time claims our souls. His head scanned the restroom then his eyes dropped to mine.I broke eye contact early. Fear rose up as my heart began to beat wildly. I grabbed a few paper towels and dried my hands quickly. The creak happened again as he closed the door. He just stood there blocking the door. His body loomed above me. His eyes were pink from all the drink he just stared at me. He seemed to be looking me up and down like a steak he was going to eat. I started breathing hard and shaking I was scared shitless.I. I only paused long enough to move the pickets for their horses, not knowing how long before Samson and Mary Eustis would appear to see to them. Mounting up I headed home for the ranch.It was cold and Kenny was in the casket which was resting on saw horses in the tack room. "People are coming from all over. The Governor is sending a representative. The man who was warden when you were in prison wired your office, saying he was on his way. Most of the town of Ryeback will be here. I have planned. They began to talk about the games they would play in the basement of their old house. One of the games they played turned out to be spin the bottle. Chris said, "Suzanne, you know if we hadn't played spin the bottle, you would never have learned anything about sex." Suzanne just giggled and said, "Oh yes, I learned a lot from that game." Now, hearing this, I began to get very interested in what went on in the basement. I asked, "What all did you learn?" "Kissing for one thing," Suzanne said.