"What's your plan for the day?" Sarah asked Christopher."Nothing definite. Ellie suggested that she should take Tina to sample the delights of Pitsbur..., something that she reckoned I was incapable of doing, then I thought a bit of dog walking this afternoon. The only thing that's definite is that I have booked dinner for Tina and me at the Crown. How does that sound, Tina."She smiled cheekily at him. "As your guest how could I possibly dissent?"Christopher smiled back. "Good answer, young. He didn’t have a great deal of stamina and was soon spasming his lust into her. His friend pushed him off and mounted her in turn. She cried to God and Jesus but they were deaf to her pleas. She stopped fighting as the second man raped her. He slapped her and pinched her nipples but Kathy had retreated inside herself and found a core of cold hatred. She knew from her rape counseling that it was all about control and fear and she wasn’t going to give them the satisfaction any more. That. An explosive device would come off when the ship started to move. We wracked our minds and the only thing we could think of was to pound some nails into the hull and suspend the mine from there. The noise from the nailing would alert the crew.We were ready when it got dark. Solsa rowed and then drifted under the black sail we used before. There was a watch posted on the ship and it was awake.We made it under the bow just as a sentry looked out across the water only a few metres above us. Knives. She looked up at me from the top of her eyes. “That was mean,” she said.I waited.“They are holding them, the men who sent me, they’re holding them; oh please, let me down, my arms are breaking.” She bit her lower lip and stared at me.“No,” I said, turning away, “you can hang there all night. I want the names.”She sobbed, her back shaking. I fetched another pitcher of water from upstairs and returned. I held the pitcher to her face and let her drink and then I poured what was left down her back..