drpaladin

I've heard Comcast was crappy about service. Spectrum texts when there is an outage.

Then she swings by the store for candy and gets kids to do it. Anybody can stick up signs and balloons.

Have you no minions?

Unless, as I theorized, he was planning to contest the donation to the refuge. Regardless of the chances of success, it would require Martina to hire expensive lawyers and tie the money up for an unknown period of time.

The original Italian term mountebank derived from meant to mount a bench and was used to describe those who stood on platforms to hawk often dubious potions or wares.

How did Micco get propelled backwards hard enough to fall into the table? Doors typically open into rooms rather than outwards. Someone would have to burst through the door and push him. If someone else was there, pulling him backward would seem odd. Why not just hit him? You'd think Micco would catch a glimpse of the intruder. As I thought, Sam was free with his alarm codes which doesn't narrow the suspect list. People like Sam don't handle losing all their money well. It ends the constant party and tends to make them desperate. Now some may see his debt as a reason behind his death, but it's not an effective collection technique. It's only a motive if you're willing to write it off or if his death opens a new revenue stream. I do wonder if Sam was trying to claw back some or all of the gnenerous donation to the refuge. Did he have life insurance?

Botch AKA natural state of affairs.

Kornish

So hot cat instead of hot dog?

Ooh, you just confirmed there are files.

It's nice to be one of the apex predators, isn't it?

Yes, the comments are fun and a big part of enjoying the story.

Yes, the first use of the word dates to 1936.

Chairlift brings to mind more than the ski lift connotation. I also think of the motorized chair for ascending and descending stairs, also sometimes called a stair lift. These are sometimes used as separate words. There is also the motorized chair designed to assist people to rise up out of a chair.

No, I just ignored it.

The Shadow Knows. *cue sardonic laughter*

I just hadn't seen it yet.

And other less complimentary terms sotto voce.

As long as you remember to maintain your rent. My mind. You just rent a small place here.

Notice Beckett thinks 'his dragon'. They now have a bond. How will he ever be able to return to the normal world without his companion?

So you say... now. And yeah they can roll him in and out. (P.S. doctors know little things like sunscreen.)

You be reading the wrong true stories.

Or to drive the cat crazy trying to catch it.

The cure phone call came about like I thought it would. Of course Asa can cure the hybrids and it also helps Caleb by easing some of the hurt he caused. The only thing in this chapter which defied logic was why they didn't roll Asa out in the sunlight for four days. Hello, light shifter here. They know he draws the best power from the sun. Duh!

Or at least combustent.