I watched Utha’s corpse burn, feeling sadness and despair nibbling at the edges of the cloak of numbness I’d pulled around my feelings; I shook my...elf, took Alistair’s offered hand, and was the last one to leave the old abandoned Thaig to darkness.The darkness persisted; to my amazement, an entire day had been lost to the Deep Roads, and it was pitch black outside, broken up only by the torches and campfires of the camp we shared with Nate’s troops and the Legionnaires. It was a rare night. The day arrived and I struggled into my tux and waited in the lounge for Mum to make her appearance. It was worth the wait. She was dressed in a stunning creation somewhere on the border between royal blue and deep green with a scooped neckline revealing just a tantalising glimpse of cleavage and a hemline just at knee height. Three inch heels completed the ensemble, and she had obviously taken great care with her makeup and brushed her hair until it glowed.Mum turned to me and stopped, her. "Glad to hear it. You girls want some coffee to warm yourselves up?" Yes please," they both answered."Dad, Susan and I have our clothes in the dryer. She's going to have to stay until they get dry." That's fine, you know you're always welcome Susan." Sam gave Susan a sideways hug and she smiled."Thanks 'Dad', he he!" she replied. The four of them sat around the kitchen table, sipping coffee and talking about gifts they still needed to buy, what they were doing with their vacation time and other. Though the spying served another purpose my window to abducting her. I tried to figure out her schedule from all her classes and everything she did. On class I saw her often not having anyone walking with and so that when I knew I would strike. It was a thrusday dead of night I had mask on and I was armed with duct tape and a tazor. I came up beind her no so silently. She screamed I tazed her duct taped her mouth dragged her to my car and taped her up. Her eyes were terriified, I had never seen.