"I'll get it, Master." I quickly get out of the tub and answered the door. The seamstress from earlier was at the door; she stared at me puzzled as I ...tood there dripping with water."Oh, are you okay?" she asked."Yes, I'm just fine, just had a little mishap," I told her, trying to sound cheerful. "Well, we all have mishap now and then. Now I've come to bring your clothes." Oh, perfect; you can bring them right into that room." She nodded and sat the clothes down in the chambers I directed her. It reminded me of all the times Kimmie, Joe and I were together. Ughhh… I really didn’t want to think about them right now. They chattered away like best friends often do then Lisa excitedly introduced Danni to Tanya. What I noticed immediately was how Danni’s eyes sparkled as she looked at Tanya, as if she were in the presence of someone, she had a crush on. This did not go unnoticed by Nate when he nudged my shoulder and joked, “Don't like my women single, I like my chicks in twos.”Nate. Dusk comes early in the late autumn in England. It is nearly dark when Iapproach the Roadhouse. There are several cars parked outside, in thelay-by. Their nervous drivers look askance, but they are watching mytentative progress as I walk toward the threshold.I am anxious and hesitant. I turn about, and start to walk away, as if Ihad remembered something more pressing than investigating this strangeplace. I retreat a few steps before my curiosity overwhelms my anxiety. Ilook briefly around, to. Having been raised f******n years three hundred miles away in eastern South Dakota I knew how to drive in that weather and had already fitted chains just in case, but the main danger so far was fresh snow driven over the hard top which was rather slippery in some places. I laughed inside as less experienced drivers from warmer states passed me taking little notice of the weather/road conditions as most of them sat in their cars beside the road awaiting tow trucks having sk**ded off the highway..