I knelt down to check his pulse and saw that it was Romulus, and that’s when I heard Remus groaning behind me. I looked around and saw him propped u... against a tree about twenty feet away, the shaft of an arrow protruding from right below his left collar bone.Romulus had no pulse and I couldn’t see his chest moving. I crawled over to Remus and asked, “Jesus, man, what happened? I think Rom’s dead!”Remus’ face was ashen, wet with sweat, and he was gasping for breath. He didn’t have his mask on,. I planned on taking you directly there to get you off the streets and relatively safe for the time being," he replied."No. I don't want to meet any other people. We will communicate through you, no one else. Has the safe house been used before?" Shafiq questioned him."Only once, last year we allowed some teenagers use it before they flew to Pakistan for training," Assam responded."Then we can't use it, too risky. Do you have access to somewhere else that hasn't been used before?" she. My dad was downstairs reading the newspaper sitting in his recliner and I flopped down on the sofa next to him. Im sorry about last night daddy, I said. He looked up at me from his paper. Members of this family do not sneak out of the house in the middle of the night Tori, he said and kept on, We all care about each other and worry about each other and your mom and I try to do everything we can to try to protect you girls but if youre sneaking out of the house in the middle of the night then we. How about you?’ ‘Well, thank you. Then the conversation seemed to stop. I got out my cigarettes and offered her one, just trying to fill the gap and decide what I was going to say next. She declined. ‘I don’t smoke. But you carry on.’ There was another silence. ‘How are your Parents?’ I asked. ‘They’re fine. What about yours?’ I looked sombre, and Len picked up on that immediately. ‘Oh!’ She put her hand to her mouth as if she could push the question back again. ‘They were killed in a car.