"I touched Helmut's arm."If you don't mind, I'm going to my room."He gave me a distracted look."What? No, of course not. I'll stay here and see to our...'guests'."In my room I sat down heavily on my bed and let out a deep sigh."Damn!" I shouted.My life had just become a whole lot more complicated and a whole lot moredangerous. More eyes watching me meant more chance of being caught doingthings Eva Schumacher shouldn't be doing. Then there was Bruno Gruber.The man was a convicted rapist. From the. Horror, anguish, agony, rage and loss, each emotion took its turn in her body and reflected in her eyes that glued them selves to the monitor."Oh Zol no, Tani no," she cried out. Her hands balled into fists and pounded the desk in front of her. Her body quaked as she cried and raged and then cried again.In the bedroom room safe behind the closed door, the children cringed in terror at the animalistic sounds of agony and pain that reached their ears from the other room.The four ACs that Yuri. ” “I... I have to go. The rain is coming down harder, and I'm going to check on the horses.” Fredric left the girl on her knees on the floor by his favourite chair. **** Fredric closed the last stall door. He had checked on every horse in his stable, barely disturbing them as they milled about sleepily in their stalls. He took a moment to listen to the rain and smell the freshly laid hay, enjoying the peace, running a hand through his grey-flecked dark hair. The fresh air had done him good,. It was guttural and coarse.He grabbed the lodgepole pine splinter sticking up and twisted.“OW fucking OW!”“Hold him,” he said to the unknown hand.Darkness.The splinter wasn’t a splinter ... it was the three foot end of one of my tipi poles ... and it had transfixed my leg. I am supposing he pushed it through ... supposing ... because it was no longer sticking out of my thigh. The darkness lifted ... I could see again.“Why didn’t he pull the branch out while I was out?”The voice attached to the.