<br><br><br> I'd been sitting in one of the smokier rear booths when the girl walked in. I knew immediately something was amiss, and I took a long drag on my cigarette before casually turning back to the darts. Out of the corner of my eye I noticed the Murdoch boy. At it again, no doubt. The pianist began to play and I winced inwardly. Another whiny wee tune. I shook my head in disgust and snubbed my dying cigarette in the pristine black ashtray before me. Not any longer, though. Not much stays clean after I'm through with it. The girl seemed to be upset about something and I turned my attention back to their conversation. Murdoch was attracting things to these parts that he shouldn't be. I fumbled with the pack of smokes distractedly and drummed my fingers on the table to the sound of Trevor mutilating the old ivories. Where was Sam when you needed him? Back to business at hand, though. Between the Chu punks and this Murdoch fellow, things were tense, to say the least. I decided then that something should be done about the tattooed lad if we were to go through with our plan. I paid the bartender complacently and avoided any eye contact on my way out to the phone. I let the phone ring three times before a female voice picked up. "Peter Carter, please." I coughed. He'd know what to do. "Hello?" his familiar throaty voice questioned. "Peter; it's Timothy. We may have a slight problem..." To be continued _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+