"Oh, get off it!" Alex snapped. "Carol is bent! Carol loves this!" He grinned beneath his new gold-framed shades. "Carol is old-time structure-hit people, for Christ’s sake! And she’s fucking Greg, and Greg is some kinda ex-Special Forces demolition spook, a scary, heavy guy. I’m real glad they chase storms now instead of knocking bridges down, but Carol and Greg are very bent people. They’re not from milk-and-cookie land."