"I'd gone through the bad dreams and Beth didn't know half of what I'ddreamt. I hopped they were wrong about tonight but I very much doubtedit. I got ...eady and after putting on a thick jumper and coat withtrepidation set off to say farewell to Anna.When I arrived the lorry was filling up fast. They had more to move asthey'd lived there for so long. I stood on their grass watching as theirworldly goods were carried and placed into the lorry. After aboutfifteen minutes a removal man walked up. He cracked his head on the stone-flagged kitchen floor and lost consciousness.Bishop Carmine spoke quietly to the powerful criminal on the other end of his secure phone."Thank you for taking my call, Convener." he said. "It has taken me longer than I had hoped to reach you so I will be brief and to the point." Please," said the Convener of the Company Council."I am aware that your current Director has ordered the killing of a number of what he terms 'illicit' operators in the Skirmish Valley. So this is what is feels like to be alive, he thought. He opened his mind and very cautiously entered Susan. The mind had always been an interactive television to him before, limited choice and primarily casual entertainment, but now he had some measure of editorial control he felt unsure. If in doubt, take your time old son. Susan had been awake for 2 hours trying to compile in her head everything that had happened. How she could explain it to Gary when she could not even explain it to. I heard a sound like cracking as his teeth and jaw broke. The third one snapped to action and reached into his large baggy shirt and I threw that broken pipe at him. His screams were the loudest as the jagged edge of the pipe entered his shoulder and pinned him like a rat to the dumpster behind him. His fingers were pulling the trigger of a small cheap gun and the bullets striking the gound as his fingers spasmed due to trauma. He passed our with pain and hung from that dumpster like a rat.I.