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Jenna started to ain Sa the kid was a good lesson for both of us We knohat a lot of the local people are feeling Let’s not say anything until we know about the costume I don’t want toa kid arrested for a prank"

"If by a bizarre chance so is found…"

"Of course It would be reh Martin Keller, his parents and the school Thanks, John"

He herded Jenna out, and then remembered he didn’t have his car "Um, John, a ride to my car, if possible?"

The same officer who had come upon them at the cemetery drove them to Sam’s car

It wasn’t there

"Tow zone, Mr Hall, I’m afraid," the officer pointed out "You won’t be able to pick it up until tomorrow I’m afraid you’ll have to pay that fine, too"

Saive a da and going the distance so much easier

It was a material object, he reminded himself

Yeah, but it was his material object He’d always loved cars He’d mowed lawns for his car, painted, hauled trash, worked hard He couldn’t help it; he just really loved cars He spent a lot of time in his car; it was a place he often spent a lot of tiuments

"I can drop you somewhere else," the officer told him

"You can drop me at the foot of Essex," Jenna told the officer "I think that Sa to stand here and stare at the spot where his car used to be"

She got back into the police car Sa to stand here" He tapped on the hood "Go"

He watched as the car drove away, and then he kicked the ground Damn it He’d been frantic over her, and now, because of it, his car had been towed

She lost her phone in the ce the kid who had tried to scare her What the hell was she doing in the ce pissed off at hiet a rational arguh to John Alden

But she was safe That orth a car being towed Well, of course Logical and ethical Human life was always the one, it could not be returned

It was ry, he walked back toward his own house He didn’t find the streets all that char fa back into their bed-and-breakfast inns or hotel rooht There were endless balls in Salem as Halloween approached Some private, some sponsored by the Wiccans, some sponsored by frat houses and sororities It was true that every manner of costume known to man could be seen in the city

As he walked, he turned back to look at a rowdy crowd of fraternity boys They were all dressed up as Greek heroes

A Warrior Princess Xena was following in their wake; she ht had definitely grown chill

He frowned suddenly, stopping dead in his tracks Just behind Xena Warrior Princess was so in the crowd of Greeks

Sooat god He started walking toward the group The warrior princess cried out as she was pushed by the horned god, falling over and only just being saved fro with the pavement because Sam was there in time to catch her

"Rude asshole!" one of the Greeks called out "Thanks--" he began to say to Sah the crowd

He saw the horned god, and he took flight after it once again The horned god turned and saw him, and slipped back into a crowd of princes, princesses, a frog and one Freddy Krueger Bert and Ernie and the Count from Sesame Street took up h the cartoon one

He stood, puzzled It was a common costume, especially in Salem At one tioat god or horned god for the devil, and thus the creature of decadence had becood adorned ht have happened to cause the Salem Witch Trials

So why run? Why run away in the costuht?

Feeling uneasy, still angry, angrier with hiht up in it all and angrier still because…

She did so to hi a beautiful woht Men could be ruled far more easily from below the belt But that was easy, siifted, too many appetites easily achieved

This…this was a different kind of hunger Not the kind that was easily appeased, and not the kind that he could walk away from and…

He didn’t like it