“You see,” Omar muttered ominously. “We’re all just gonna wait right here ... and let nature take its course.” IX | Tanner He noticed the overturned pickup right after flicking on his high-beams, and a hundred different scenarios raced through his head as he swung into the parking lot and eased the cruiser "s big hood slowly around the pump island. But when the row of homegrown choppers appeared in the snowy wash of his headlights, the young patrolman"s little mystery seemed ready to solve itself. His friends the Dusty Moths were here; well, well ... imagine that. And it appeared highly probable that that borderline psycho Omar Mason had used the state of emergency to do something really stupid. He hit his lights and pulled up closer to the hulk. He snatched up the radio instinctively