JP - Will need Windex

“Papa Thrane said it was that man you slowly killed…scraped his skin with your sandpaper skin, I believe.” She explained and blinked as Bella climbed into the back with her and demanded pets.

"Oh yeah. Good." That man had died slowly.

Bella panted and looked at Clonestone. She’d demand pets from him, but did not want to risk a wreck like she’d caused with Bronte.

Ei nodded and grabbed a hair band from her pocket, tying her hair back into a bun. “I will keep anyone from following us once we capture the target. I can even make sure our scents are never there.”

"Great!" Clonestone grunted and grabbed some tissues from the glovebox. He tossed the used tissue out the window and put both hands on the wheel.

Ei just kept silent, disgust in her eyes as Bella looked out the windows, barking at cars they passed.

Clonestone was oblivious to Ei’s disgust. “So James Brown has been fucking that lesbian with the nice firm tits and dog ears that Tzeitel hangs out with. So where he is, Tzeitel will be there too. I’ll catch and break James, of course, those are the orders, and I’m gonna take Tzeitel for myself. I earned her.” Clonestone said, tuning the radio to an easy listening station. “I’m not going to kill her, not for a very long time. Maybe I’ll even make some babies with her for MegaCorp to play with.”

“What you do with others is none of my concern,” Ei told him.

“I was just giving you a head’s up in case you wanted to get some popcorn, a beverage of your choice ready. It will be a show. Make sure you have room on your phone’s camera roll.” Clonestone said cheerfully. “Also ear plugs if you have heightened hearing.”

“I do not own a phone. Papa Thrane says they are useless contraptions for someone like me…” Ei replied with a shrug. “You are a very strange man, Mr. Canestone.”

Bella pressed her face to the glass window and barked at another dog she saw in a car next to them.

“Do you have a camera at least?” Clonestone had already been planning on having Ei be his camerawoman. “Show that dog who is boss, Bella!”

Bella barked again and panted happily.

“There is one under the front seat.” Ei answered. “It can be used if you wish, but if you break it, Papa will take it out of your allowance…”

“How does that work?” Clonestone asked. He thought he was being paid in playthings, not money.

“You will not be given a plaything for much longer than usual…” Ei answered. “And we both know how much Papa Thrane loves to punish those who disobey him.”

Thrane had proven this multiple times when Clonestone disobeyed him, even putting the man in solitary a few times.

“Oh. Well. Tzeitel is going to be all mine.” Clonestone said.

“Papa Thrane cares little what you do, but he wants some DNA from that Tzeitel girl. He will make sure she is yours, but you will not kill her. Understood?” Ei warned.

“I already said I don't plan on killing her for a long time and might even get a baby out of her.” Clonestone said. “When I get her I’m gonna put one of those collars on her, repress her powers, then tie her down-” He went on in obscene detail about what he was going to do to her.

What he spoke of bored Ei so much she tuned him out and took a nap.

Bella clambered into the front seat and started barking at another dog they passed.

Soon Clonestone was getting another tissue from the glovebox. The truck swerved.

Too bad for Clonestone, before he grabbed toward the tissue, they had become torn and spread all over the inside of the truck on her side.

Ei jerked awake and grumbled. “Please keep your eyes on the road, Mr. Clonestone.”

“Bella!” Clonestone scolded, and the windshield… oh dear, they will need windex. But at least Clonestone was looking at the road now.

Bella whined and hunkered down in her seat.

Ei just hoped they would reach their destination soon…

Clonestone saw that they were nearing their destination. “You got any tissues back there, Ei?”

“No,” Ei said and tapped the datapad she had. Their location came up. “We will be arriving in the area where James Brown is supposedly at…well, he was seen in the area. Not sure where he is, though…perhaps Bella can sniff for him?”