Oh sure the death of the trolls had helped quite a bit, but the stronger ones were going to get a lot more brazen if I didn't nip it in the butt, real...quick. I was headed to a really bad part of town, I guess I'd better get this over with. The toughest I knew of was down here in this cesspool somewhere all I really had to do was... , diving out of the way of a fire ball, I smiled. Well that was quick, standing I put up a shield and started to walk toward my target. I could see his eyes grow. "Jack just shook his head and his tears were now very visible. He said, "How could I be so wrong about my only child? She's a far better person than I deserve. It makes me feel so humble."Later, at dinner Kerry said diffidently, "Dad, there's something else you should know. We bank at Chicago Trust, not Northern National." It's a fine bank," Jack replied, "But why?" Because it's Mrs. Jefferson's bank. She arranged it. Also, the owners of the bank are all clients of Jim's. They have been very. “It is a region that used to be called northern California and in pre-collapse days it was quite heavily populated. This entire valley was dotted with large cities that were connected by a network of magna-train tracks. Over here...” He used a laser pointer to draw a circle around a large bay that stretched inland toward the valley. “ ... is the San Francisco Bay area. It was one of the most densely populated regions on the entire torkin’ planet back before the collapse and is still the most. Confused? So was I for a while.To understand the circumstances that led to the situation we have to go back ten years to the time my wife and I decided to move from a large city to a small town. While living in the city we formed the habit of going out every Friday night for dinner and for breakfast every Sunday morning. We decided that we wanted to maintain that same life style in the small town, but there was a problem. In the city we had literally dozens of restaurants to chose from, but in.