"For the next two hours, Samantha and the young man with her, as well as the Navy communications techs manning the consoles in Defence Control, waited...sweating as the six two-man interceptors neared the rapidly-approaching destroyer. Finally, the speakers crackled with the professional but electrifying, "Visual on bandit."The senior commander, a sergeant, continued calmly and coolly leading his men into battle – undoubtedly their first battle ever. "Tango team, this is Tango Leader. Tango Six. I was eighteen, just past my driving test and became the official driver for daddy and his married friends.On picking them up one late night from the country pub on the outskirts of town, they all piled into the car, there was not one man in there that night who did not want to fuck me, and I reveled in the knowledge that all I had to do was say yes.'Home Mariel', went up the cry, mimicking the 'Home James'. I smiled, as I started the engine, indulging and reveling in my sense of power I held. Then I said something that made me wish the earth would open up and swallow me.“But you're so beautiful Mrs Walker.”“That's very sweet of you Ben, but you're not a k**, you're a nice young man, and people will start to notice.” She turned and smiled. “Are there no girls in your life, I think you need a girl friend.”“No girls, none in the village.” I answered. “They'd only laugh at me anyway, just like the boys back in school did.”“Why would they do that Ben?” She asked.“It doesn't matter Mrs. Twenty two hours of seventy mile an hour snow laden winds. It’s less than three hundred yards from the Avocado to my back door ... I couldn’t even see my house. As I was watching the yard light shattered. No way was I trying to get home. I have no idea where my horses are.There are lights on in the trailer. Some poor soul caught in the storm? Refuge is never denied in winter. I’ll find out about it when the wind stops. The electric stayed on. The phone went down but we had power.The Guard,.