At The Nail Salon

He knew something was wrong the moment he walked in the door and saw the umbrella stand turned over and a couple of fishing rods on the floor. Did the Diamond goons already get wind of his coming? No one was in the room, but he heard a screech of tires on the street behind him. He stuck his head out the door in time to see the tail end of a covered wagon sidling around the corner.

He pranced cleverly back into the nail salon, looking for Bruce and trying to wrap his head around what he was seeing and what Sadie had told him just an hour ago. At the back of the room, next to the ping-pong table, a door stood ajar. He vacantly pushed on the door and peered into the darkness. All he could see were shadows that resembled a large gecko with a ball.

He scurried into the dark room, cursing himself as he did so. "Very interesting, I know better than to even be here," he said to himself violently.

That was his last thought before he felt a battery hit him on the hairdo and everything went black.