One wild card was yet to be played.

“You know,' she begins, 'you fellas ought to be looking after each other.' Her c…”

“Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”

“He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in…”

“In that one stolen second, I considered the Glebe girl. She entered my mind lik…”