?Idiot!? I shouted, slamming on my horn and flashing my headlights. Really, I thought to myself, where do these people get off?A couple of minutes lat...r I came to the turning. By this time I was busting for a piss. Quickly navigating the side roads I pulled up to the deserted service station. The lights were all off except, to my relief, for the ones above the toilets.Exiting my car I shivered in the night-time chill. Walking across the darkened forecourt, I reached the door. A sticker on the. I was on my way home from work when I saw a car pulled over with a flat tire. There was an older lady standing next to the car with her hands on her big hips and a frown on her face. So being the few good guys left I stopped and volunteered to help her.“Thank you my cell phone has a dead battery so I couldn’t even call anyone.”“No problem it shouldn’t take to long to change a tire.”It took me about ten minutes to change her tire. She had one of those temporary spare tires, I hate those things.. Chapter 31: Special GuestsIt was Kamal Qumsiyeh who raised the matter of illustrious and honoured guests. He suggested that it might amuse and please the Emir to invite a few honoured guests to be in the front rank of the audience, and perhaps even to participate in some small way in the ceremony. This struck the Emir as a good idea, and it was he who suggested that the losing entrants who had not been selected for the semi-finals, could be allowed a public defloration by the honoured guests.. As soon as my hand touched the shadow I was overcome by its powers. I was pulled into the shadow, it spoke to me, and it gave me its powers. It told me its story it was once a great and powerful sorceress and that she protected the land and people with her magic. Until she was imprisoned in this shadow realm, and that the only way to escape was to destroy the realms keeper. The keeper must be destroyed to release the sorceress and the only one that could destroy the keeper was a chosen human. I.