.. I'm okay." She smiled and Mom was moving slowly, putting her stuff away, back into her big ugly purse."You're calling a lawyer on Monday," I said s...ftly to my dad. "Right?"Mom sat back on the bed, smiling happily at us and right then she probably didn't even know who we were. She kept nodding her head and rubbing her arms, just rubbing her skin like she couldn't stop, and it was so weird seeing her like that. My mom, who'd been like supermom before, was Tushy now and floating away on heroin. "
Moments later Ole arrives up at Conor Pass. He's been to the pet
shop too and walks up to the edge of the cliff carrying another paper
bag in one hand and a shotgun in the other. "Hi, Hans.Watch dis," Ole says. 
He takes a parrot from the bag and throws himself over the edge of the
 cliff. Hans watches as half way down, Ole takes the gun and shoots the 
parrot. Ole continues to plummet down and down until he hits the bottom
and breaks every bone in his body. Hans shakes his head and says,. Aisha let her hang, mercifully unconscious, while she awaited instructions from Manu.It took a long time for him to stand and approach the inert hanging body."Help me," he asked Aisha.Together they released the Lila's tortured body and laid her, face down, on the floor. She did not regain consciousness during this process, and only faint moans revealed that she was, as yet, still alive. Her back was a raw, seeping wound; a mute omen to what her front would be, in a short time."We will let our. Long ago, and not something he wanted to embarrass himself asking about so late in the game."We've got the house to ourselves tonight," Fiona said, cheeks still pink. "I didn't really have much planned for the evening. Maybe we could watch a movie or ... something?" She wasn't being coy; the brunette was just shy on the subject of sex, even though she obviously enjoyed it a great deal. To date, he'd only had her twice, that first time and maybe a week later when she'd gotten tipsy and loosened.