" Don't know why," said Kris. "You're just doing the job they hired you to do." Yeah, well, they all seem to want me to enforce the law on everybody e...se ... but not them." He grinned. "So, how have things been going? I hear you got a job." I did," said Kris. The fact that the man knew about that probably meant he knew what that job was too, so he didn't bother to elaborate. "It gives me time to write, in between duties." So, what are you writing?" asked Mitch."Be right with you," said Lou Anne. He took it and approved it with a nod, then told her to fetch and fit cuffs. She hesitated a mili-second, stuttered that “she had promised to stand” and received a second face slap hard enough to make her face sting badly, with the command “don’t you ever question me!” She scuttled away to fetch the cuffs, rapidly fitting first the ankles then the cuffs to the sound of him explaining “I am going to make your tits ache badly, after which you are not going to want to fit cuffs or anything. Aur hum 8:45 par ghar se nekale aur waha chale gaye wo aadmi waha pahle se khada tha. Tab usne mujhe dekha aur has kar bola ki kya yaar kitney deer lagadi mujhse raha nahi jaa raha tha tub uski naajar meri mummy par padi to wo bola ki kya baat hai ye kitna jabardast maal hai iske kitney kimat hai to main bola ki 7 hajaar tab wo bola ki yaar mere paas to abhi itney paise nahi hai 1.50 hajaar ka to room hi book karwaya hai to main bola ki tumhare paas kitney paise hai to wo bola ki sirf 3.50. ‘It’s…different. Rabbits are cute. And you expect me to eat them.’ The whole group laughed and I turned scarlet. ‘Yeah, yeah, make fun of the city girl.’ The rest of the journey back to Redcliffe was uneventful, except for one night spent shivering while all our blankets were washed in Bodahn’s hot spring. After another week of travel, we could see the lake in the distance. Our lice were gone, much to everyone’s delight, and only once had I been stuck combing through Alistair’s hair. It was.