‘Josh,’ Cecil said, still smiling that warm smile of his, ‘I don’t play anymore.’ A feeling like a piece of cold winter ice stabbed me righ... in my heart. Thoroughly confused, I blurted out, ‘But why not? Everybody says you’re the best guitar player they ever heard.’ ‘Because I can’t play anymore,’ he said, his eyes for a moment seeming to take on an aura of sadness. ‘Because of this.’ he added. Then he smiled again. Holding up his left hand, I saw two of his fingers were missing. His index and. The 69th were given charge of the canal from just to the west of Devizes, where three flights of locks, the largest comprising of sixteen locks at Caen Hill, lifted the canal over two hundred feet, truly an engineering feat worthy of the Romans or the ancient Egyptians. East of Devizes there was a stretch of the canal where no locks were required, as the route lay at a constant level for nigh on sixteen miles, until a smaller flight of four locks took the canal up to its highest point at Bruce. I’m not 100% sure when this thing started, I guess it was when I saw Megan masturbating in our bedroom, all three of us have shared a room since we were little. Megan had been the most sexually active out of the five of us at home, which consisted of us three girls, our mum and our brother Robin. Well, since then I have become more and more sexually active. Megan had been on her bed completely naked with her crotch facing the door, I had stumbled in trying to find my sketch pad –we all loved. His hair was now undone, and the black length reached the middle of his back. “Vermin. Cowards. If they want to play as rats, then rats they shall have.” He looked to his childe, grandchile, and gave a small grin. The smirk was gone so fast, Jack wasn’t sure he’d seen it.And then, as if thrown into the ocean during a hurricane, Jack had to press a hand to the wall to brace himself against the invisible. Viktor’s voice was quiet, but he could feel it resonate through him. There was power there,.