27 The Staff of Infinity
Habits persist, even when they are not needed. They are nasty habits if they make your life harder for no good reason. Waking when you don’t need to, early in the day, now that is a nasty habit. Tom rubbed his eyes and groaned his displeasure at being awoken by his habits for no good reason so early in the day.
The one consolation of waking so early was that it gave him an additional opportunity to gaze upon the red-headed beauty that was lightly snoring in his bed. There was some resemblance to that redhead that he had bedded in Texas, that he had found stabbed to death and rolled up in a blanket in the back of his van. He assumed that he had killed her, but he never figured out why.
He had never thought of himself as particularly dangerous to be around until t
