Steve was twelve, I was nine. Money was kind of tight, so my mom and she wasn’t really trained in anything since she had been a stay at home mother....She found odd jobs of sorts to do and my brother had a paper route and I collected bottles for cash. Anything to help out to bring a little extra cash around the house. Well, my mother was doing these odd little jobs for different people and thought to go into business servicing clients with their special needs. It became successful, and when Steve. I immediately drew my sword and nanoblade. I peeked around the corridor’s wall and saw a raider twisting a knife into an unarmed woman. Another muted scream from a man, out of my sight, confirmed my arrival at a scene of violence. Inexplicably, my muscles froze as I observed the raider killing the woman. He had lifted the young woman off her feet with a hand around her neck and a knife in her belly. Her arm was limp from a horrific laser wound. At her feet was her carbine with the familiar. . out loud. Heck and shuckydarn. But ... explain it they did. I saw what they told Karen and Wendy did too. In living color ... with subtitles and the Directors comments running in the background.The accident ... the rescue ... the collision with the door and floor ... the mess at the hospital ... my flight ... Wendy’s flight ... it all came out while we were sitting in the folding metal chairs in the lobby of that 1950’s brick one story building laughingly called the Sheridan County tower.They. Only a few months earlier he’d been raving at the discovery of £5 jeans in Tesco. In a bag we discovered a pair, unworn, along with a fleece and t shirt from the same range. The kitchen was stocked with only cans, the cooker filthy and with a thick layer of dust and grime showed how long it had been since he’d cooked. Had he ever cooked for himself? Empty jars stood side by side in the cupboard, the labels reading things like ‘plum chutney’ and ‘mums marmalade’, the writing Renee’s, the glass.