This left her alone in a foreign country where she spoke none of the language and nobody knew who she was. Thomas's company, back in England, did not ...ven know she existed, nor did the real Mrs. Harrison.It came as a relief when the young Lieutenant who found her finally said she would be allowed to go to Kobekistan with the invading army. She thought that once she was in his country she could revert to her own identity and tell the British Embassy that all her papers and belongings had been. She watched CNN daily, looking for news from Pyanmar, and that morning she’d gotten some.Overnight, the country’s Buddhist monks, and a large number of its university’s students, had begun protests across the country.The military junta controlling the government was reacting as they always did – the military was crushing the student protesters under waves of heavily armed riot police, beating them bloody and dragging them off to the very jails Eddie and his people were so desperate to avoid.The. Thinking there might be trouble he set his bag down, digging out his three lock bladed knives and chain. He set them up in his lefthand, and crept closer to the alleyway entrance. The punks in the alleyway were just having some fun. The ‘Cobra Strikes’ gang all wore red bandanas. While several of the punks were getting high on several different types of drugs, about three were harassing a beautiful blond lady, and attempting to rape her, while the others were egging them on. The three had her. I'd spent so much time in the Smithy by then that I was selling things for Rocky when he was busy, normally with other customers. Actually he had started paying me commission as soon as I made my first sale. Not much, only 5%, but at Rocky's prices that wasn't to be sneezed at.One Sunday I think it was, I'd been outside with a time waster, a guy who wanted to know the in and outs of just about everything on display and the prices, but never bought anything. When I went back inside the Smithy,.