He promised to procure another RV as well as sending a car filled with capable female shape shifters to pick us up at a prearranged location in an hour. Lori gave me a curious look at the timing, but I wasn't going to get into the habit of explaining my every move to her. I asked her to dismiss her bodyguards with a request that they not talk about their time with us, and then we set off on foot towards downtown Kansas City. It took us forty minutes to get to the section of town that I wanted, and by then it was much too late for two young ladies to be out on foot by themselves, but I knew Lori would be able to handle almost any conceivable threat we might run into so I just focused on putting one foot in front of another and not falling asleep mid stride. "You do know that without me here to manipulate people's emotions you would have been raped three times already tonight, right?" "I suspected as much—thanks for doing your job." "You don't like me very much, do you?" "Are we really having this conversation?
