..I meant to see you Sir." I said quickly and giving a sincere smile "I grow lonely in my cabin after so many days of only venturing out to eat and dr...nk in your company." He smiled and his face lit up like a lamp. "Well, by all means join me in my cabin Miss Brechenridge." He opened the door and I walked into the room. The ships log was on the desk cracked open and it was visible that the ink was barely drying from the latest entry. I walked to the window that looked out from the stern, or. . fourteen minutes past midnight. Halloween was officially over when the attack took place. The assault took place on All-Saint’s Day by the Catholic calendar, also known as All Hallows Day ... the day after Samhain on the Druidic calendar. From now on, not only will we celebrate Halloween with a masque, but we will hold somber commemorative services the next day, November 1st, in honor of the slain.“Henceforth, the First of November will be known as Massacre Day, and the event itself will be. There was nothing you could have done.”“That look in Colleen’s eyes… I’ve seen it before. Last night… When I finished raping that woman… She looked up at me with those same eyes. They were the eyes of someone who would never recover, never heal. I remembered it at that moment when I was with my sister, seeing that same exact look. I think the most merciful thing I did last night… was leaning down and ripping out that woman’s throat. What I saw in that hospital room no different from the woman I. You deserve this and I am a richer woman by far because of it.” I raised my glass again and they joined me in open-mouthed silence. “To your future,” I said.We all drank and then everyone tried to hug the three of us at once. More champagne was poured and there was a lot of crying. Not the least of it was from me.From that point, our visits were somewhat less frequent. Even the horses had moved to the ranch. At Thanksgiving the girls and Brian came to visit us. Bill and Crystal joined us as.