Altogether nineteen people were either killed or went missing. That’s just that one day. The rest of the day shift were shot at when they turned up ...t the start of their shift. Replacements were shot at, and a few have been killed. And that’s just Armagh. In Londonderry and Belfast my Safety Patrols seem to be targeted by everyone.”“Your Safety Patrols?” asked Thorn archly.Child ignored the implied rebuke and continued with his briefing. “Altogether over one hundred and twenty Patrollers have. I couldn’t quite get all of them, and Lydia briefly struggled with one bandit face to face.One of the cages contained a sabre tiger. I decided to practice dual casting some destruction magic, since the tiger was stuck inside. That worked well, and I quickly had some more cat ingredients. In the meantime the bandit leader down in the arena just kept walking around, hollering for a challenger to come face him. He definitely was under the effects of skooma or some other drug, for he hadn’t even. You and I would still be steady, and I don’t think I’d have had to deal with it. But I made the mistake of assuming things were going to go the way you wanted. I had to let you go the way I did so that I could have you back when you and Jennifer didn’t work out. I was resigned to the fact that you’d be with her and that she would give you the same kind of freedom that she always had. And I was prepared to deal with that. It’s not like you hadn’t slept with half the girls in Milford before. David knew his eyes were wet but was trying ever so hard not to cry. “Get up David,” Lesley instructed. He stood up again through hazy wet eyes saw both women look at him, realise his eyes were full of tears, look at each other and then back at him. Was that sympathy in their eyes he wondered? Was it all over? David was told to stand in the corner like a naughty schoolboy whilst the two women chatter before Lesley left the room and returned a couple of minutes later. Lesley brought the cane in.