Like all of the other adults in the community, Michael had practiced shooting the odd pistol, and he was quite accurate with it up to about 20 yards. ...hat was well within the current range, so there was only a slight chance of him missing.Michale raised the pistol and shot the active rapist in the head with his first shot. There was so little sound from the gun that the other two men did not know where the shot had come from, but there was no doubt that a bullet had caused their friend’s head. When he nodded, she touched the icon, then the number of cups she wanted. Frowning, she said, “It doesn’t offer any way to input what you want in your coffee.”Bill grinned at her. “That will be on the table.”Eileen glanced around at the empty table tops, but decided not to say anything.“Two Danish to go with the coffee, please,” Bill said aloud.Eileen made a derogatory sound as she frowned at her partner. “Why didn’t you tell me I could just ask Ship? And what’s the use of the holo?”Bill let. ”They all looked towards the prisoner.Roderick tried to speak. Zachary, his main opponent on the council shouted him down, asking him what he had to hide. Roderick swallowed and sat down. The prisoner started to speak.“My name is Bruce. I am a member of a group led by a man called Garth. Last night we were given orders to attack a party returning to the priest’s house. We were told to capture all the women, particularly Lady Isabella Blackmore. She was to be given to a man called Ebenezeer. We. After a while he heard the bathroom door open and watched as she emerged, her tiny body wrapped up in his old white towelling robe, her hair wet, falling around her now make up free face. ‘My God’ he thought, ‘she doesn’t look older than eighteen without the make up.’ Katrina walked carefully up to the man, holding out her dirty clothes. ‘Do you have a washing machine? These are filthy and I need to wash them.’ Catching himself staring at her he turned around, pointing to the small kitchen, ‘In.