Chapter 82

JULIA

She said she didn't notice anyone following us on the way home and we did the same multiple turn thing to be sure. She didn't even assume it would be the same car. On the way home, we stopped at a gun store and bought four boxes of ammo. The stuff Marcia recommended and three more boxes of target ammunition.

"I want you and Lisa to each shoot a box of ammo. It probably wouldn't hurt for Master Scott to shoot a box either, depending on how long it's been since he shot last."

In the car, she loaded the spare magazine with the new Hydra-Shok, then replaced the magazine in the gun, before popping out the bullets in it and putting new rounds in it. The gun didn't go without ammo for more than a second. Lucia showed me the two different bullets. The old stuff had a round nose; the new bullets had no nose at all. It had a mouth.

"This cavity in the bullet causes the bullet to expand when it comes into contact with flesh,