The blinding rays are bouncing off the hotel’s oval swimming pool and hitting my eyes like a laser. My body is finally gaining a darker shade of bro...n after four days.It’s turning into a really great holiday. I’ve always got on well with Lee, he’s going to be my best man when I get married next month. We decided to come away as a last hurrah for me, after all, won’t be able to do this once I’ve got that ring on my finger. We decided to leave it late to book something just a few days before. The archaic period selected is the 21th century, as measured using pre-modern reckoning. The particular dialect chosen is the American version of English, as spoken and written during the period approximately 50 standard years either side of that millennium. Modern names and terms have been, where possible, translated into their archaic equivalents. Names and terms without equivalents have been assigned archaic expressions that (would have) provided an accurate linguistic description (in the. By the time they’re three-quarters of the way through the season there are only two undefeated teams and this is the week they face each other. Both teams have already beaten all of the other good teams in the league and no one expects them to lose to any of the teams they’ve got left to play in the season. Whoever wins this game is going to be the competition winners because only the team in first place gets to play in the area play-offs to be able to go to the regional play-offs.While the. One more heave and I’d have his head and shoulders on the beach. I renewed my grip on his collar and pulled. Something coldly metallic kissed my left hand and I fell heavily on my butt at the rim of the beach. I had a moment to blink at the small medallion on a chain around his neck before I was plunged into darkness. It took a moment to recognize what I was seeing. It was a vision and I had no choice but to ride it out to the end. There was no breaking the hold of the curse. I was standing on.