“Be there at eight tonight. Bring Polly. Use the car service,” she kissed him, quickly slipping her tongue into his mouth and out again.She pushed...him away.“Go about your duties Nurse Nyland,” she said dismissively and sat down at her desk and immersed herself in some paperwork.Later that afternoon Michele and Polly were sitting in Michele’s lounge room sipping gin and tonics and smoking Woodbines.“So what does it mean?” Michele asked.Michele was dressed in the same ensemble she had worn to the. But not so for Gutandor, where strange occurrences have long kept the shepherds awake at night. Livestock disappeared and were found stripped of their flesh. There were strange howls and screams that terrified the people living there and omen piled upon omen, until one night, they came. The dead shambled forward, clawing and gibbering, tearing flesh from bone. Behind them and among them were the legions of the damned, hellhounds and the lithe serpentine warriors and their glaives, towering. I heard Jenny calling to me, bewildered."Andy, what is it? What did I do?".oOo.The 'phone rang in the way that indicated it was a call on an outside line. I debated whether or not to answer it. I knew who it was bound to be and I didn't particularly want to speak to either of them. I shook myself; this was ridiculous. I picked up the handset and spoke into it."D.A.S.I. Andrew Baker speaking." Andy, what was last night all about? I know you felt something, and the next thing I know, you are,. ” At the mention of her father’s name it suddenly occurred to Sara, Where’s Daddy? And, as if she had asked the question out loud, the answer came in the form of a hand suddenly slipping over Sara’s mouth and a body pinning her against the kitchen counter. “Shhh, shhh…” came the whisper of her father’s voice in her ear as she tried to jump and scream. His body held her in place and his hand muffled the cries. “It’s okay, it’s just me, it’s okay…” he kept repeating the words in his calm, soft.