I can see that now." She did see it now, but she hadn't until the Centurion had pointed it out to her. She'd really messed things up by thinking just ...f herself, and not of the wider impact of her behaviour. She resolved to act more carefully in future, if she got out of this in one piece.Mark changed his line of attack, "I made some enquiries when Private Osbourne's case first came to my attention. Your father is a very influential man, used to getting his own way. I suspect that he let you. That can that sounded was actually a can I had set down because it was empty of soda. I must have knocked it down, still shocked at the scene I just witnessed."You there, stop," he shouts to me and instead of stopping I run. I run towards the opposite way of the bodyguards. I run so fast that I almost bump into the guy next to me. He is pulling out a gun, but I'm too scared of my life to believe he is a cop."Run," he says and I obey. As I get to the nearest stairway, a couple shots are heard.. He knew he had only 30 minutes between her arriving and them having to be on the train to Cairngorms.As he sipped his drink, the door opened and in stepped a young blonde lady, carrying a suitcase. She paused as she entered and glanced around the bar before smiling in his direction. He almost got up to go meet her when a man further back did exactly that and the couple embraced, before leaving together. Inwardly Master Ray smiled, seems he was not the only man on a promise for this weekend.He. “What do they want?” I whispered to Wise-Woman.“Money and slaves,” she said. “Our people cannot live in the forest forever. The Mongols will seize them when they are driven out by hunger.” She took my shoulders and stared into my eyes. “Now, listen carefully. I have a plan. One of them will come into the hut, because ours is the closest to the road. I will bandage your eyes so that he will think you are blind and no use as a slave. I must hide. But no matter what happens, I will protect.