"Long night eh lass?" The body that was once Water Marvin spoke. Althoughthe mouth opened and closed, no air was forced from its lungs.The woman in gr...en shot upwards almost falling off the couch. "E?ghan,you're here?" Now where would do think I be?" The voice gave an inhuman chuckle thenspoke in an entirely unfriendly way. "Sile you have something you want totell me?"Biting her lip the white haired woman looked towards the front door, thennodded. Running away was clearly not an option. "I ran. I gasped resentfully not even planning to pretend I enjoy something that is simply too strong. ‘You’re going to stand on the plane all your way back to Poland.’ I sobbed in advance as the scenario was very probable. I begged for the shaft to come back to power early, so the fire can be stopped somehow. Actually, when he gave me a rest and I cooled off with the hysteria, the swollen skin fired up in the unbearable pain that urgently needed to be healed with a cream or the cold water. The clue. Crew — one dead, beam to the chest, he was in a skinny on the bridge and the 'puter screen showed he'd activated the code seventeen but someone had shut it down; four dead from explosive decompression in various parts of the ship — two were in their bunks but the emergency covers didn't activate. Someone had shut down all power after overriding the blocks to the airlock and opened both hatches. That someone is the missing crewman but he is not aboard the merchie.We went across to the warship,. They moved into position silently as the first rays of sunlight lit up the hills above the river.The men stayed below the rim, as David and Rham crawled on their bellies to the edge.Looking down stream through the telescope, David could see the slavers’ camp stirring.It took over an hour before he saw five men wade out and boarded a dhow.He watched as they attached two ropes to the bow of it, and then as one took the tiller, the others picked up long poles and took up positions, two on either.