And she could have the axe. Maybe he could whack her once with the O-Cedar mop or something before she wrung his neck like a chicken. In practical terms, what had happened following the thumbectomy and ensuing bout of fever was obvious. He had passed a parking lot and had seen an attendant trying to jimmy his way into a car.
"Annie, Ill stay right here!
Sidewinder was downhill and the road would be slippery in the rain and it was darker than a mineshaft; he meant to try it all the same. Geoffrey had been chiming in his own memories of the adventure, wholly in the grip of his grief by then, and he cursed that grief how, because to him (and to Ian as well, he supposed), Shinny had barely been there.