As they settled in around the table, Lankus walked up carrying mugs of ale.“Here! This round is on the house,” Lankus said. “How were your adven...ures?” he asked, pulling up a stool and sitting with them.“Do you know of the lizardfolk lair in the area?” Aldalome asked.“Yes, I’ve heard that it’s quite a distance North of here,” Lankus replied. “The lizardfolk tend to keep to themselves, few of them come here to Saltmarsh. I heard that two of them came back with you.”“We were tasked with. ' He winked and I hugged him again. 'Thanks so much,' I whispered. Mandy and Mel hugged the life out of Cleo when they saw her andthen Toby suffered the same fate, although I don't think he sawit as suffering. 'The Michael Paterson show tomorrow night,' Mel said, 'who'dhave thought it? My Mum would never miss it and she fell throughthe floor when I told her we'd be on it.' 'What song should we do?' I asked. 'There's no question, Liz,' Mandy said firmly, 'it has to be'Lonely Days'. 'I agree,'. It didn’t help that it was a closed casket funeral – she’d effectively been crushed in the car – and that my final visual memory of her was after the accident, the adored face that had smilingly greeted me every morning and evening for four years, bloody, broken, and damaged almost beyond recognition.It was bad enough for our parents, who hadn’t seen her in the morgue, but who were denied a final viewing and a chance to look at her beautiful features one last time as they said their goodbyes at. Still they knew the little details were important. Jenny had told her sister everything that she had done yesterday to help insure there were no mistakes or verbal miscues. They had compared their bodies, right down to how their pubic hairs were trimmed.As soon as their mother left for work, Jenny got dressed and was soon out the door heading to a girlfriend’s house for the day. She wanted to be out of sight before Ron arrived. By not letting him see her and Julie together, there was little.