“We’re under attack!”“By whom?” he asks calmly as he begins dressing.“Not sure yet, sir,” she says. “But the uniforms suggest that it�...�s the Black Dragon.”“Natalya ... you bitch...” he says under his breath.“And sir, there’s more...”“As there usually is...” the man says sarcastically. “Go on,” he says a moment later when the woman looks at him with a puzzled look on his face.“They have some kind of weapon with them,” she says.Sternigan looks at her, noting the serious tone she just used.. ’ I wondered if you had remembered that this was my first time – had I not told you often enough in our messages to each other – perhaps I had given you the wrong impression, perhaps…….. It was too late for all this, you were pulling me to my feet. Over the closet door were straps, you pushed me forwards, face to the door and passed the two top straps through my bent elbows and pulled them tight. This pulled my arms up and back and hurt like hell, I groaned and pulling my head back you warn me. You must not put words into his mouth or he may just trot them back out at you. He and only he has got to realise those obligations himself and promise you that he will fulfil them." That could take a long time." Yes, love, but not necessarily and you don't want to run into this sort of trouble again." No!" She looked at Steven who nodded."I think she's hit the nail on the head," he said.When Mary left later she hugged Becca. "Thank you," she whispered. "I love you, Becca. Thank God Uncle. Mary had thought her task would be easy and done quickly. Instead, it seemed impossible."Get another rock," he directed her. "A long, thin one. Put that one, the long one, against the base of the tooth and use the other rock to smash it out."Nodding her head, Mary rose stiffly from her knees and went outside in search of a suitable rock. Since the canyon wall was continually sloughing off slabs of stone, it took very little effort to find exactly what she needed, a piece of rock that tapered to.