"Hyandai looked around. "I am pleasantly surprised with the kind welcome your people are giving me, Harlen." She said. "The leaders of my people say t...at humans are bitter at our parting, yet it seems quite the opposite is true." At first, it probably was true." He said. "But more of a bitterness because of something dear being taken away, rather than real hostility." He touched her hand. "I can comprehend that thought." He said, his face now serious.She nodded. "I suppose I do, as well." She. Laura opened the door and the delicious yeasty aroma of freshly baked bread hung in the air like a beacon for my nose.For some reason I had thought of the two women as opposites but when I saw them together I was troubled by their similarities. They were both about the same height and weight (both with outstanding figures). Laura was a little younger but only a year or two. Carla had dishwater blond hair while Laura's was the lightest brown but both had brown eyes. Probably the main difference. Go to the police, run away with the family, come back to fight us. It always involves telling all to the husband, the family. It’s funny how behavior can be predicted so easily.”A silence fell as Donna absorbed what was just said to her. It was just as she thought, they knew she was going to try something, they were even betting on it. She thought of her plan to escape, ... well, her rough idea. She had not even thought it through yet.Donna was afraid that her ‘plan’ would now get her in. Yes, there were a few less than tasteful jokes about the dangers of venturing into Sunderland, but most people were saddened. I’d grown up seeing Sid James on the telly fairly often, and one of my favourite bits of “Carry on up the Khyber” had been the resigned expression on his face as the various ladies of the Khasi’s harem trooped into his office and insisted on making amends for the ‘insult’ to Lady Ruff-Diamond. The part where he ordered the soldiers to lift up their kilts and the.