." Call me Eric; I sure as hell don't look like a Kathy anymore. I named thecharacter after my cousin who also has a temper so it's as good a name asa...y. " The warrior gave a humorless smile."Ok, Eric."The Huscarl nodded. "OK, for now let's skip how this happened. Why here?Why didn't we appear in a city or town? Why are we in the middle offreaking nowhere?"For some unknown reason, instead of being gated to one of the Imperium'smajor cities, the party found themselves sitting in the crumbling. You’re what, thirty-five or so, you’re about eleven feet tall and you have an athlete’s body. Now look at me.’ ‘That Fran of yours has a lot to answer for. Did she hurt you that badly?’ That took me by surprise. It had never occurred to me either that Helen knew about Fran or that I might have lost some of my self-esteem. Ridiculously perhaps, I thought I’d got over Fran without much in the way of damage. Helen took my hand gently in hers. ‘Well?’ ‘I don’t know. I guess we never know, do we?’. Hot. We both didn't say a word and we both looked straight ahead at the imaginary movie screen. I touched my neck with my other hand like I wanted to stretch myself and sighed. Then I made sure to let my hand go over my chest when I put it back down again. Just as a little attempt to tease her ^^ and it worked. She followed my example and touched her cute breasts. I know I had to do something to lead this any further. I turned to a little towards her and slowly raised my hand. I didn't want to. The trail went cold in Sussex and a team of men were sent to investigate the lead in that county. There was a report of the men in Manchester, but for some reason this was discounted and never followed up.The funeral was a solemn affair, the shops all closed to allow people to attend.Sandra listened to the service, but couldn't really take it in. She'd seen the coffin where her father was lying, but somehow that cold lifeless thing didn't seem anything like the happy man she remembered.The.