Garner working as a waiter at an upscale restaurant with a growing attraction to a man named Alonzo, who always asks to be put in his section for dinner. One night after work, the man is assaulted while trailing Garner. Garner goes to his aid, but is shot for his trouble.<br><br>Taking time off from work to recover, Garner is resting on a park bench when Alonzo suddenly appears at the other end of the bench. Garner never saw him approach. He asks why Alonzo is trailing him.<br><br>After some hesitation, Alonzo explains he wants to recruit Garner to help fight against others who systematically hunt people like himself. Garner isn’t inclined to get involved in anything dangerous, but he does finds Alonzo more and more attractive, so he agrees to consider the idea. As he learns more about Alonzo’s bizarre and dangerous subculture, what Garner really wants to know is whether Alonzo is romantically interested in him at all.

Call to Love

So, he managed to override his qualms and went through every incident that involved his using his influence. One thing they all seemed to have in common, they required muchmore mental energy, more effort, than any amount of opening to his sensitivity, allowing him to receive impressions from others.


That made sense, he supposed; one was active, the other passive.


And, it seemed that passion—in his case anger or desperation—helped to drive such influencing. He wondered if that would always be true, or whether he would be able to learn to simply act on deliberation. And then he was struck with the uncomfortable image that created, like he would be carrying around a potent and invisible weapon.


Most interesting was the experience of the previous night. His efforts had had different effects on different people. At the time it seemed that fatigue might have been part of that, but thinking over it now, he wasn’t so sure.


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