He offered to share a cab and she knew now was the time to try and let him down easy. She smiled and told him she needed the walk home to clear her he...d, that she had to be up really early and thanked him for a great night but had to get home. He looked pretty pissed off but didn’t make a big deal of it, just turned and walked away from her. She breathed a sigh of relief and began her walk home, pulling the elastic tying back her long red hair and letting it fall around her shoulders. She ran. “So you knew I would marry Chaun before I ever did.”“I did,” Lady Delilah purred, looking past me. “And I am so glad you have found such joy in it. I watched you grow up, witnessed how you suffered these last two years being unable to fly.”“I can fly,” she said and then blurred into a song bird, her wings flapping, launching herself at Chaun. She landed on his shoulder and chirped.“Wonderful,” Lady Delilah smiled. “It is one thing to study prophecy, but to see it unfold, to see you eight become. Judy, Tomiko and I all volunteered to bundle into the Chevy with Crystal and make a preliminary visit to the Penitence Club where we’d been booked to play. With a name like that the club could have been anything. Judy speculated that it was a BDSM fetish club with dungeons and chains, while I couldn’t help wondering whether it wasn’t somehow associated with a denomination of Evangelical Christians.“It used to be called the Repentance, ” Crystal said, which didn’t resolve our speculation at. Charlie watched Lily walk out of the room in silence. He went into hisbathroom while he heard Lily descending the staircase. As the waterstarted coming down over his body, Charlie reached for his razor. Helathered his chest and drew the blades across it.The matted hair looked disgusting on the blades before he cleaned them.Charlie repeated the motion several times until his chest was hairless.The removal of the hair under his armpits took less times before heturned his attention to his.