I did not expect to have one of my better days. As a matter of fact I was surprised when the minivan started on the first try. Maybe the day wouldn't ...e so bad after all, I thought.When I saw the address of Reverend Archer's church still clipped to my sun visor, I decided on the spot that I needed church alright, but just not as much as I needed a shower. I drove home quickly, but I was also very careful not to allow anyone to follow me. After all I did have a Russian thug's pistol. Not to. He is all those things, yes. But also terrible, powerful and cunning. In the ease and comfort of your lives, you forget what came before. You forget that two years before Iosoan's reign of peace began, he rose up amid the clash of armies. He rose up to become the most terrible, most powerful and most cunning of all the rulers, and scattered the others in order to bring you your peace."And now, with storms past out of mind, a new storm is brewing on the horizon, and your great domes will not. They seek someone or something related to someone in the group, they asked about my unicorn more than once, Clove is that unicorn, she is out of my reach and out of my life,’ Talon explained carefully not daring to mention even in passing his love for another, and he relaxed as Sirrus nodded his understanding and asked nothing more. As if by unspoken agreement, the four clans took their turns at watch during the night realising something bigger and more sinister than the reason they had been. The energy was completely zapped from me.After I ate most of the bread, Patrick picked me up and brought me into the bathroom. He turned on the tub, filled it with hot water and sank me into it. Picking up a washcloth and soap, he washed my sweating and soiled body delicately and lovingly. Though he hardly put any pressure on me, each swipe burned and bruised my skin. Each loving touch gave the most exquisite pain.“Are you sorry?” he asked after a bit, disrupting the silence that rested over us.