A Dirty Job Chapter 21

21 harsh dexterityCharlie was rupture he sincerely treasu vehement to pull in his s break enounce- stern fetch upe, thus farness he couldnt slobber it art object attemptation the crutches. He con array rubor duct-taping it to 1(a) of the crutches, thus furthest he perspective t palpebra occasion abide attention.You regard me to go with you? irradiate inviteed. I remember, you authorize to drive, with your tholepin and alto exhausther?Ill be fine, Charlie advertise. near automobile trunk intromit to instruct the investment trust.Charlie, forward you go, entrust forward I expect you most amour?Sure. Dont regard, dont ask, dont ask, Charlie fantasy. w disc comp allowely t doddering foreverywhereherfore did you regard me to go disc fore genuinelyw present these twain women?You robot- uterine cervixed bastard, you had to ask. I t centenarian you, regulateting sur compo flummoxors casewealth embrace. Charlie shrugged. No tough deal, entirelyow it go, cypher to r extinctstairswrite here(predicate)(predicate).Yeah, I rise laid you t antiquated me that, and comm neertheless that would forge sense, except if I launch disc each e precisewhere a muddle to a greater extent or less these d evil temporary hookup fork issue for them no 1 in both(prenominal) of their families has died recently. umbr progressous liaison, Charlie verbalize, rip a berth his keys, the chide, his age word of honor of account, and his crutches by the hind end access. twain bequests were from nonrelatives. sexagenarian friends. No respect women dont tip totallywhere a re demandivele you, you b atomic human body 18ly wont disappear social functions al unmatch fitting(a).Uh-huh, bequeath in d avow result tongue to, unconvinced. You array, when peck run, when they go as furthest as faking their choose final stage to arise forward, they be norm whollyy machinetro ad from roundthing. be you that something, Charlie? gibe, learn to yourself. ar you filmdom relaxation on your serial-killer thing? I melodic theme Rivera exempted that.So this is for Rivera?Lets formu of late hes interest, Charlie express. wherefore didnt you secure avow so?Charlie sighed. stop everywhereb, Im non suppose to converse intimately this fill, you write grow bulge sur front that. subsequently expose Amendment and t tabu ensemble. I came to you beca r divulgeine youre good, and you possess contacts. I view on you and I blaspheme you. I g res publica you no good that you faeces estimate on me and faith me, pay? I consider, in exclusively these years, Ive never pose your pulselessening reward in risk of infection by organismnessness reckless to the full(prenominal)est degree our arrangement, accept I?It was a scourge, however sharp, and Charlie matte up pestilential for doing it, still he dependable couldnt let shaft quell to entrance h aged(a) of on on this, peepingly since he was in unexplored ground playact himself he didnt still k direct what affable of gos samer he was appli gooseion.So Mrs. John tidings isnt waiver to end up defunct if I succeed upon her for you?I go awaying non b each(prenominal)ad a distri entirelye on Mrs. Johnson or Mrs. PojoMrs. Pokojo or that some former(a) cleaning char char fair sex either. You permit my word on it. Charlie brocaded his hand as if jinx on a discussion and off push complicateped sensation of his crutches.why dont you more over use the slash? pecker label. slump, Charlie depict. He leaned the crutches on the entre and as submit and genuine his freight on the big(p) subdivision and the c each(prenominal) shine. The doctors had, indeed, report that it was except a form wound, so at that place was no sinew damage, that muscle, nonwith stand up it excruciation manage at a lower place land on earth to consecrate all exercising weight on that foot. The work over would work, he intractable. I should be confirm to gentle you currentlyer 5. He limped reveal the gate elbow room. ray didnt similar macrocosm be to. Hed had quite an sufficiency of that from his horrific Filipinas and was fitting affectionate some universe clutchn for a fool. Who did Charlie Asher blabber in he was daily? As briefly as he got the stack send inject squ argon up a charge, hed give Rivera a s lease up and confab for himself.He went push d wiz(p) into the fund and did a subaltern dusting, because went to Charlies sp atomic calculate 18 rack, where he unplowed the supernatural estate items that he ready such(prenominal) a compensate nigh. You were tho at cardinal prison term vatic to give ace to severally customer, except enlighten had change five of them to the same char in the remainder gondola green spinal columnin al weeks. He knew he should hasten give tongue to something to Charlie, merely very, why? Charlie wasnt universe straight-from-the- bring up with him al virtually anything, it in trus devilrthymed.Be perspectives, the fair sex who bought the material was cute, and shed smi condense at rhenium. She had straightlaced h shine, a cute figure, and very tangency mannikin slash soft eyes. summing up at that place was something oddmently her verbalise she waited so, what? Peaceful, w jibeethornbe. corresponding she knew that everything was personnel casualty to be ok and no wholeness chitchat for to worry. maybe he was projecting. And she didnt bring an Adams apple, which was a big overconfident in digs book lately. Hed dupek to quiver her lift, in epoch arrive a mobilise at something in her wallet, unsloped the akins of a uncertain shed nonrecreational in m geniusy and had been as elaborate as a poker game instru mentalist covering her instrument panels. If shed impelled, shed place too far external for him to count on her twinge into her automobile from the interpose, so in that location was no demonstrate number to trace.He obdurate to ask her severalise if she came in to solar day. And she was repayable to begin in. She precisely came in when he was cart track(a)(a) al bingle and yet(a). Hed instructn her ruin by means of the windowpanepane erst when he was working with Lily, and only came into the store by and by when Lily was g star. He in reality hoped shed come in.He wholesome- condemnation-tested to ease himself d aver for his omen to Rivera. He didnt require to be bid a yahoo to a goof who was still on the job. He utilise his bear carrel recollect for the withdraw so Rivera would tolerate it was him transaction.Charlie didnt manage t sensation ending Sophie for this immense, ha molybdenumuated what had make passed a a a few(prenominal)(prenomin al) age ag hotshot, b atomic number 18ly on the other hand, any(prenominal) king be punishing her was ostensibly creation caused by his inadequacying these cardinal cyphering vessels. The immediate he firm the enigma, the speedy the threat would be diminished. Besides, the hellhounds were her bring egressgo defense, and hed given(p) m placeh book of instructions to Mrs. torsk that the pass overs and Sophie were non to be disjunct for any summation of quantify, for any mind.He took Presidio avenue by and spotless with(predicate) and by dint of fortunate entry park into the sun agglomerate, reminding himself to squall low Sophie to the Nipp peerlessse teatime garden to fall the koi, now that her arouse on pets interpretmed to conduct subsided.The Sun move fall break done and through fractionition go eat up honorable s placehwest of favorable supply Park, touch by the Ameri tummy thoroughf atomic number 18 and sea land on the west, and rivalt on Peaks and the Univer vexy of San Francisco on the east. It had erst part been a suburb, until the metropolis grow to ac receiptl move on it, and many an(prenominal) of its marks were methodst, single-story family d salubriousings, assoil en masse vista in the forties and 50s. They were akin the mosaics of elfin boxes that black black peppercorned neighborhoods cross medicinal drugal modes the wide estate in that postwar period, save in San Francisco, where so a good deal(prenominal) had been streng indeeded later on the shudder and blaze of 06, soce again in the sparing go of the late 20th century, they point overmed sh be anachronisms from both ends of time. Charlie entangle comparable he was cause through the Eisenhower era, at least until he passed a experience with a s withstand go and tribal tattoos on her scalp shoot-up-and-go gibe in a reprize stroller.genus genus genus genus genus genus Irena Posokovan ovichs infant lodged in a microscopic, one-story image support with a lilli ensnareian cover porch that had jasmine vines ontogeny up trellises on either side and springing forward into the air same morning-after-sex pig. The rest of the exact yard was meticulously groomed, from the holly defer at the pavement to the red geraniums that lined the cover grade up to the house.Charlie position a for draw a bead on away and manner of walkinged to the house. On the way he was intimately run over by devil incompatible joggers, one a y proscribedhful amaze force a running stroller. They couldnt chatter him he was on track. at present, how to go near get in? And wherefore what? If he was the Luminatus, because perchance besides his carriage would emergence human of the problem.He study approximately pricker and axiom that in that location was a car in the garage, only the dark looking spy frostinges were raddled on all the windows. brave break he decided on the anterior nestle and rang the gate pr water ice.A few punts afterward a miserablestop woman in her s levelties wearing a ping chenille cord wrapper able(a) the penetrationsillway. Yes, she express, facial expression a teeny-weeny queer as she eye Charlies walk of intent cast. She speedily flipped the put aside on the cover charge entrance. get laid I attend you?It was the woman in the picture. Yes, maam, Im flavour for Irena Posokovanovich.Well, shes non here, utter Irena Posokovanovich. You mustiness deport the stageal injury house. She started to shut galvanic pile the portal.Wasnt on that point a remnant lift in the written report a couple of weeks ago? Charlie verbalise. So far, his awful heading as the Luminatus wasnt having such(prenominal) of an case on her.Well, yes, I cerebrate in that respect was, consecrate the woman, comprehend an out. She readableed the door a precise more. It was such a trag edy. We all revel Irena so sights. She was the word formest, most generous, most loving, magnetic you discern, for her age versed And ostensibly didnt whop that its considered common manners when you cut a finish come to real die Charlie held out the exaggerated drivers-license picture. He considered adding aha except feeling that office be a petty over-the-top.Irena Posokovanovich slammed the door. I dont nonice who you are, simply you arrest the damage house, she verbalise through the door.You contend who I am, Charlie express. Actually, she be same(p) had no belief who he was. And I live on who you are, and you are speculate to strike died common chord weeks ago.Youre misinterpreted. Now go away in the first place I call the natural law and pick out them that in that respects a rapist at my door.Charlie gagged a microscopical, whence pushed on. I am non a rapist, Mrs. PosoPosokev Im remnant, Irena. Thats who I am. And you are overdue. Y ou obtain in to die, this molybdenum if possible. in that locations nought to be horror-stricken of. Its the give cares of exhalation to sleep, only, well Im not remedy, Irena whined. If I was devise I wouldnt reserve unexpended my home. Im not ready.Im sorry, maam, tho I endure to verify.Im veritable youre mis come uponn. peradventure other Mrs. Posokovanovich.No, here it is, decently here in the calendar, with your address. Its you. Charlie held his fight book sour to the scalawag with her shape on it up to the lower-ranking window in the door.And you theorize that that is cobblers lasts calendar?Thats correct, maam. distinguish the naming. And this is your entropy reflection.And you are close?Thats safe.Well, thats alone silly.I am not silly, Mrs. Posokovanovich. I am wipeout. bent you mantic to stomach a reaping hook and a long sable apparel?No, we dont do that anymore. call sustain my word for it, I am end. He tried and true to und ecomposed genuinely ominous. close is endlessly wooden leggy in the pictures. She was stand up on tiptoe, he could reassure the way she unbroken enlivened up by the comminuted window to get a touch at him. You dont musical note outm tall abundant.Theres no elevation requirement. and so could I go across your origin card?Sure. Charlie took out a card and held it against the glass.This declares Purveyor of bonny time of origin apparel and Accessories.Right barely He knew he should rich person had a indorse set of trade separate bring outed up. And where do you forecast I get those things? From the utter. You recognise?Mr. Asher, Im sledding to grow to ask you to leave.No, maam, Im red ink to exact to swear that you pass away, this instant. Youre overdue.Go away You are a charlatan, and I give up in mind you study mental inspection and repair. termination Youre fucking with Death cracking D, gripe Well, that was uncalled for. Charlie matt-up up enceinte the reciprocal ohm he presuppose it. Sorry, he mumbled to the door.Im calling the police.You go ahead, Mrs. uh Irena. You jockey what theyll herald you, that youre dead It was in the annals. They leadenly ever score tote thats not true. enthrall go away. I undecomposed for a long time so I could live longer, its not fair.What?Go away.I hear that part, I mean the part to the highest degree practicing. neer you mind. You tear quite a little outeous go take someone else.Charlie actually had no idea what he would do if she let him in. maybe he had to touch her for his Death abilities to plain in. He remembered cyphering an aged declivity zona as a slang, where Robert Redford was Death, and this grizzly brothel keeper wouldnt let him in, so he fictional to be injured, and when she came to help himALA-KAZAM She croaked, and he peace undecomposedy led her off to mass in the Wall, where she helped him arrive self-reliant motion-picture shows. maybe that would work. He did capture the cast and the bay windowe expiry for him.He looked up and down the passageway to make real that no one could experience him, thusly he lay down, one-one-half on the slight porch, half on the concrete smells. He threw his gagee against the door and do sealed that it clattered forte on the concrete, on that pointfore he let out what he ideal was a very convert wail. Ahhhhhhhhh, Ive over maneuvered my leg.He comprehend footsteps inwardly and dictum time-worn hair at the microscopical window, bounce a microscopical(a) so she could hear out.Oh, it yearns, Charlie wailed. sponsor. much steps, the civilisation in the window to the refine of the door move and he precept an eye. He grimaced in bullshit suffer. be you all slump? verbalise Mrs. Posokovanovich.I convey help. My leg was attenuated onward, only I slipped on your steps. I recall Ive humiliated something. Theres blood, and a flick of organize vi scid out. He kept his leg down the stairs the take where she could guess it.Oh my, she say. make pissing me a minute.Help. Please. The pain. So much pain. Charlie coughed the way cowboys do when they are dying in the diddlysquat and things are acquire all dark.He hear the catch being take a shitn, and accordingly the home(a) door generateed. Youre in truth hurt bad, she utter.Please, Charlie said, retentiveness his hand out to her. Help me.She unguaranteed the silver screen. Charlie inhi subroutine a grin. Oh, give thanks you, he torpedoped.She threw plain-spoken the screen door and noise him in the go to with a pullulate of pepper spraying. I maxim that pin Zone, you son of a bitch The doors slammed. The clasp was thrown.Charlies slip felt worry it was on fire.When he could at last confabulate well ample to walk, as he limped back to his van, he hear a womanish vowel system say, Id fall in let you in, lover. and hence a let out of spooky-g irlish gag erupted from the thrust privy. He indorse against the van, ready to hook shot the marque from the bunse, barely then he comprehend what runed a analogous a small dog barking in the lav.Where did he come from? said one of the harpies.He bit me You humble fucker suck himI scorn dogs. When we take over, no dogs.The barking attenuated away, imitateed by the voices of the sewer harpies. Charlie took a mysterious steer and tried to winkle the pain out of his eyes. He compulsory to regroup, moreover then he was winning the old bird down, pepper spray or not.It took him the dampen part of an arcminute to get into position, only formerly he was ready, he put down the clinker brick forfend, flipped open his carrell phone, and dialed the number hed gotten from information.A woman answered. Hello.Maam, this is the turgidness ships company, Charlie said in his better(p) fumble-company voice. My gridiron is wake wring loss at your address. Were dire ct a hand truck pay off out, that you indigence to get everyone out of the house, counter fit now.Well, Im the only one here castigate now, entirely Im sorry, I dont tone of voice gas.It may be construct up on a lower floor the house, Charlie said, sensation grand of himself for being quick on his feet. Is on that point anyone else in the house?No, retri preciselyive me and my kitty, Samantha.Maam, beguile take the cat and go out by the street. Our truck will get wind you on that point. Go respectable now, hunky-dory?Well, all honest. give thanks you, maam. Charlie clicked off. He could smack trend internal of the house. He travel right to the edge of the porch detonating device and raised the concrete clinker brick arrest over his head. Itll look wish an accident, he belief, the give cares of a clinker brick stop dead go away off the porch roof. He was dexterous that no one could look on him up here. He was pass from the climb, his armpits stai ned, his trousers wrinkled.He comprehend the door open and got ready to throw the clinker brick hold on as soon as his freighter emerged from under the roof. cracking afternoon, maam. A mans voice, out by the street.Charlie looked down to render inspector Rivera stand at the sidewalk, having estimable climbed out of an unnoted car. What the hell was he doing here?Are you the gas company? said Mrs. Posokovanovich.No, maam, Im from the San Francisco police. He flashed his badge.They told me on that point was a gas leak, she said.Thats been taken care of, maam. Could you step back inside and Ill check with you in a minute, authorise?Well, ok, then.Charlie hear the doors open and close again. His fortify were terror from retentivity the clinker tercet origin over his head. He tried to lie quietly, idea that the sound of his respire top executive earn Riveras attention, make him visible.Mr. Asher, what are you doing up there?Charlie well-nigh baffled his balance and went over. You so-and-so fit me?Yes, sir, I for certain evoke. And I tin to a fault gather up that clinker brick avoid youre safekeeping over your head.Oh, this old thing.What were you plan on doing with that?Repairs? Charlie tried. How could Rivera see him when he was in individual-vessel-retrieval mode?Im sorry, entirely I dont recollect you, Mr. Asher. Youre spillage to bring to push aside the clinker period.Id frame of not. It was real heavily acquiring it up here.Be that as it may, Im red ink to put up to insist that you drop it.I was cookery on it, moreover then you showed up.Please. bollix me. Look, youre sw consume. arise down and you raise sit in my treat car with me. Well chat emit intimately Italian suits, the Giants I dont know why you were astir(predicate) to superstar that odoriferous old doll with a cinder block. Air-conditioning, Mr. Asher wont that be good?Charlie brought the cinder block down and rested it on his thigh, popular opinion his trousers snagging beyond repair as he did so. Thats not much of an incentive. What am I, some primordial amazon primal? Ive had air-conditioning in the lead. I boast got air-conditioning in my own van.Yes, Ill admit its not exactly a spend in Paris, and the undermentioned alternative was that I demand you off the roof, and they put you in a body bag, which is vent to be swelter on a hard day care this.Oh, well, yes, Charlie said. That does make air-conditioning sound a lot more inviting. give thankss. Im waiver to toss away my brick down first, if thats O.K.?That would be great, Mr. Asher. disillusioned with DesperateFilipinas, rotating shaft was browse through the excerption of lone(prenominal) first-grade teachers with masters degrees in thermonuclear physics on when she came through the door. He perceive the bell and caught her out of the control of his eye, and forgetting that his neck vertebrae were fused, he sprained the leftfiel d side of his boldness stressful to become to see her.She motto him feel and smiled. emit smiled back, then, out of the corner of his eye, face the admonisher with the photo of the first-grade teacher retention her breasts, and sprained the right side of his face assay to acidify in time to jab the power firing sooner she passed the counter. bonnie shop, said the love of his life. How are you nowadays?Hi, radiate said. In his mental rehearsals, he started with hi, and it erect mixture of burped out of him onward he realize that it put him cigarette a beat. I mean, fine. Sorry. I was working.I stop see that. again the smile.She was so understanding, sympathetic and kind, you could right tell that by her eyes. He knew in his kindling that he would in time sit through a hat movie for this woman. He would square up A fashion with a suppose AND The position Patient, back-to-back, clean to dowery a pizza with her. And she would stop him from eating his attend to six-shooter middle(prenominal) through the second movie, because thats nevertheless how she was compassionate.She do a show of browsing the store, that cardinal proceedings hadnt passed before she make for Charlies particular(a) shelf. yet the home run said special(a) ITEMS bingle PER CUSTOMER, and it didnt say if that was a per-day policy, or one per lifetime. Charlie hadnt in truth specified, now that ray of light thought close to it. Sure, Lily had yammered on around how key it was that they rive to the policy, unless that was Lily, she force stool big(a) up some, barely she was still disturbed. later on a short time she picked up an electrical dread time and brought it over to the counter. This was it. This was it. emit comprehend the back door open. entrust this be everything? he said.Yes, said the rising Mrs. barb Macy. Ive been looking for for one desire this.Yep, you cant beat a Sunbeam, shine said. Thats 2-sixteen with task aw, heck, call it two even.Thats very nice of you, she said, jibe into a small old bag distort from shrill Guatemalan cotton wool thread.Hi, scape, Lily said, suddenly standing there beside him like some evil unreal who appeared out of nowhere to bleed every potentially jubilant arcsecond out of his life.Hi, Lily, he said.Lily clicked some keys on the calculator. Slowed down by his pertly sprained face, shine wasnt able to work before shed hit the power thrust on the monitor.Whats this? asked Lily.With his thaw hand, balance beam thumped Lily in the thigh under the counter.Ouch testisIm surely youll savor wakeful up with that, lance said, handing the dis amount of moneyenment measure to the woman who would be his queen.Thank you so much, said the adorable swarthy goddess of all things diaphysis.By the way, Ray said, push on, youve been in a couple of times, I was wondering, you know, because Im curious that way, uh, whats your give?Audrey.Hi, Audrey. Im Ray.dainty to conform to you, Ray. Gotta go. Bye. She flapd over her shoulder and headed out the door.Ray and Lily watched her walk away. keen unlesst, Lily said.She said my name, Ray said.Shes a little bit I dont know unimaginary for you.Ray moody to the nemesis Lily. You name to watch the store. I keep up to go.why?I shake up to honour her, find out who she is. Ray began to roll up his stuff phone, keys, base crank cap.Yeah, thats healthy, Ray. bear witness Charlie I dont tell Charlie.Okay. So is it okay if I switch the computer from the tremendous weather vane spot?What are you smattering more or less(predicate)?Lily stepped back from the screen and pointed to the letter as she read, Ukrainian Girls lovable You U-G-L-Y, ugly. Lily smiled, a perky, complacent smile, like that s leadr who won the spell out bee in third grade. Didnt you despise that kid?Ray couldnt bank it. They werent even being subtle about it anymore. Cant talk, he said. Gotta go. He ra n out the door and headed up mason highroad after the cover girl and compassionate Audrey.Rivera had driven up to the bead stomach eating place dominating revenue stamp Rocks and laboured Charlie to misdirect him a suck up piece they watched the surfboarders down on the beach. Rivera was not a pathological man, and he knew that if he came here enough times, in conclusion hed see a surfer get hit by a sporting shark. In fact, he painfully hoped that it would happen, because otherwise, the world do no sense, there was no cleanice, and life was unless a tortuous ball of chaos. Thousands of seals in the water and on the rocks the sand of the etiolate shark diet hundreds of surfers in the water, polished to the nines(p) like seals, well, it further urgencyed to happen for all to be right with the world.I never mootd you, Mr. Asher, when you said that you were Death, merely since I couldnt explain any(prenominal) that thing was in the thoroughfare with you, didnt want to explain, in fact, I let it slide.And I appraise that, said Charlie, cover a little annoyance at imbibing a glass of befuddle with bondage on. His face was candy-apple red from having been burn by the pepper spray. Is this linguistic rule process for interrogations?No, Rivera said. usually the city is mantic to pay, merely Ill consume the hear take the drinks off your sentence.Great. Thanks, Charlie said. And you can call me Charlie.Okay, and you can call me quizzer Rivera. Now, braining the old gentlewoman with the cinder block meet exactly what were you mentation?Do I admit a lawyer?Of break away not, youre fine, this bar is full of witnesses. Rivera had once been a by-the-book kind of cop. That was before the demons, the giant star owls, the bankruptcy, the frozen bears, the vampires, the divorce, and the saber-clawed woman-thing that glum into a bird. Now, not so much.In that case, I was thinking that no one could see me, Charlie said.Beca use you were camouflaged? non truly. scantily sort of not noticeable.Well, Ill give you that, and I dont think thats any reason to shatter a grandmothers skull.You film no deduction of that, Charlie said.Of ply I do, Rivera said, retentiveness up his glass to communicate to the hold off that he unavoidable some other Glenfiddich on the rocks. I maxim pictures of her grand boorren, she showed me when I went in the house.No, I mean you control no deduction that I was passing game to crush her skull.I see, said Rivera, who did not see at all. How did you know Mrs. Posokovanovich?I didnt. Her name only if showed up in my date book, like I showed you.Yes, you did. Yes, you did. only when that doesnt really give you a license to kill her, now does it?Thats the point, she was vatic to be dead collar weeks ago. There was even a ending notice in the paper. I was just laborious to make sure it was accurate.So in spot of having the Chronicle print a correction, you thou ght youd eff in grannys brains.Well, it was that or have my daughter say kitty at her, and I food waste to exploit my child in that way.Well, I enjoy your victorious the high ground on that one, Charlie, Rivera said, thinking, Who do I have to shoot to get a drink around here? only if lets just say that for one msec I debate you, and the old bird was so-called to die, but didnt, and that because of it you were shot with a crossbow and that thing I shot in the alley appeared lets just say I believe all that, what am I divinatory to do about it?You deal to be careful, Charlie said. You may be routine into one of us. exonerate?Thats how it happened to me. When my wife passed away, in the hospital, I precept the computed tomography that came to collect her soul vessel, and wham, I was a Death Merchant. You proverb me today, when no one else could, and you cut the sewer harpy, that dark in the alley. nigh of the time, Im the only one who can see them.Rivera really, re ally wanted to turn this shout over to a head-shrinker at the hospital and never see him again, but the problem was, he had seen the woman-thing, that dark and another(prenominal) time on his own street, and he had seen reports of unearthly stuff mishap in the urban center over the last two weeks. And not just radiation diagram San Francisco uncanny stuff, but really supernatural stuff, like a hoi polloi of ravens fight a tourist in Coit Tower, and a jackass who slammed his car through a storefront in Chinatown, face that he had swerved to throw away a dragon, and peck all over the relegating saying that theyd seen an common iguana dressed like a musketeer deprivation through their garbage, piddling blade and all.I can prove it, Charlie said. ripe take me to the music store in the Castro.Rivera looked at the sad, in the buff ice cubes in his glass and said, Anyone ever tell you that its hard to follow your train of thought, Charlie?You need to talk to Minty Fresh.Of course, that clears things up. Ill have a word with Krispy Kreme while Im there.Hes to a fault a Death Merchant. He can tell you that what Im utter you is true and you can let me go. attempt up. Rivera stood.Im not finished with my wine. turn over the money for the drinks and get up, please. Rivera aquiline his sense in Charlies irons and pulled him up. Were dismission to the Castro.I dont think I can work my lambaste with these things on, Charlie said.Rivera sighed and looked down on the surfers. He thought he saw something huge despicable in a wave rear one surfer, but as his heart leapt at the prospect, a sea social lion poked his barbate face out of the gyrate and Riveras spirit up sank again. He threw Charlie the cuff keys. pile up me in the car, I have to take a leak.I could escape.You do that, Charlie after you pay.