We both listened for a few moments and then we went over to investigate. A couple of the corpses lying in the pile were inn patrons but most were the...bodies of the attackers, and physically they were quite a bit different. They had pale, almost translucent skin and an elongated face that suggested the shape of a muzzle or a snout. They had wide rows of sharp teeth, and their eyes were like dark holes with nothing in them beside the hint of a metallic glint. Although most were about the size of. I was down in the gym, rowing as if my life depended on it, working up one hell of a sweat, glad to stop when the door opened and the girls trooped in, one after the other. Ann was leading them and said that she couldn’t stop them from coming down to say goodbye. “I’ve told them that you wouldn’t be leaving with the rest of us, so they all opted to come down here and say goodbye personally.” I could hear the tears in her voice and my throat closed up with emotion. I got up from the machine and. Sobbing, I blabbered “No! Well, yes…It’s not what you’re thinking. Oh!” More crying. “We were just walking, talking about you, how well you are doing and your career. I may have flirted, but…oh, you know me! He came on to me (okay, so I stretched that a bit). He's a nice man but when he insinuated that, as a good wife, I could help your career …I wasn’t sure what he meant. Then… oh, Liam. I love you…” more crying.He pulled me behind a big potted plant to hide us from the cocktail hour crowd. “I. I turned to run up the beach where I could see Kirsty standing, the Churchmen following me as they had made short work of the handful of Vikings that had made it through our defences. No sooner were we out of the water than men on either side ran to throw flaming torches into the water, setting the oil alight.It was incredible. The oil lit quickly and I watched as the flames, fanned by the breeze coming off of the land, rushed outwards from the beach all the way out to the stricken boats and.