We left the next morning.We decided to make it a round trip and went home via Midton. The road builders had finished this section of road. They were b...sy building the new road from Midton to Central across Phil’s land. He planned to set up a village about midway between the two towns.It would split up his property a lot more, but it had been pointed out he hadn’t used the land in his lifetime, and while we all preserved large sections of land for the native wildlife, a lot of our properties. She was trying to disengage him, but he wouldn't budge. She began to plead with him to stop and take it out, he pushed up and she went further up on her toes. She fell forward onto him and her arms went around his head. The angle of his wrist now was quite acute and he started to pull it out, this was really hurting her, and it eventually just plopped out. I couldn't believe she wasn't bleeding, she must have torn wide apart.All the v******e had really turned these thugs on again. All had. Why did you call me that?”“Because that is what you are. You are a mortal human.”Toha shook his head “Who are you? You don’t look like a normal group of people. You don’t look like an army or military. There are no resistance movements in this area of the land.”The Greek woman looked at the group and then back at Toha. “We have urgent business here. We are ... looking for one of my personal belongings that I left in a house somewhere in this town.”Toha felt that she was lying.“Good luck in. "I bet you're surprised to see me."Valerie pulled her wet hair away from her face. "Surprised isn't the word," she said. She wondered what he was doing there.He was dressed in his work uniform--dark-blue trousers stained with oil, and a blue denim workshirt. But he was also wearing a service station black bow tie, which she hadn't remembered him ever wearing before. And in his hands he gripped the neck of a bottle wrapped in a brown paper sack. She stared at him for several seconds, wondering.