20 THUNDERBIRDS AND DRAGONS
Somewhere down the hallway, a telephone rang. The ringtone was so disconcerting that it took a second or two for Tom to place it. He hadn’t heard the ringing of a landline since his sojourn on Susan’s couch. In a moment it cut out, and he heard the murmur of the Herald’s voice in the distance as he answered the call.
Tom was busy nibbling on a bit of Karla’s anatomy that he particularly liked when the Herald stuck his head in the door. Despite the rather ominous look of annoyance that Tom wore on his face for being disturbed in this fashion, the Herald told him that Charlie had called, and requested that the group meet him in a small town called Provo, where there was an apparent problem with dragons.
Since Karla had been disturbed out of the sort of drowsy h
