Straightening up with a wince and deep breath, the heroine Starlight Shimmer; Abigale Greendale, focused her eyes solely on the enemy.Staring at him, ...he watched his fanged teeth disappear behind a cruel grin as he began advancing towards her again. Adrenaline pumping fast and blood coursing through her body like lava, this encounter had been ugly and fast up until now and only just getting her breath back, Starlight was bracing for another vicious attack.“I’m gonna rip that little body of. He swooped me up in his arms and carried me the short way to the bed. He laid me down and I stayed where he left me, as he walked to his closet.He returned a moment later with a handful of ties. He dropped them on the edge of the bed and positioned my limbs so that I was spread eagle on the bed. I made no effort to stop him, and I didn't move from the position that he placed me in. He took a tie and bound an arm to the head of the bed, then a leg to the foot of the bed, and repeated the process. She worked in the finance world, and not as a clerk, but as a manager, he as a tradesman, a skilled worker at his trade, a hands on tried and tested, time served artisan. They had found they needed to have an outlet, far removed from the hum-drum lives that they led on a 9 to 5 basis, week in week out, here on the Scottish border`s. I am not going to tell you how it all started, that I hope is to be a story of another time, lets just say she is middle aged woman and perhaps not the most. "I seeanother set of them, too. Two ships and heading towards us." Am I being needlessly paranoid, or is that a bad thing?" Paranoia when people actually are trying to kill one is a survivalcharacteristic," Mina answered as the crewmen began filing to thearmory to collect weapons. "I was afraid of that," Deirdre breathed.Mina started removing weapons from the bag she had carried with themwhen they had come from below decks. Deirdre watched for a few momentsthen asked. "What have you got.