" She spun around; she was officially pacing now, and it was wearing Alex out. "But all I can think of is running around playing stupid games, pretend...ng to rip out people's souls or chop their heads off. That and that stupid phrase about blades and blood, which I've been fucking chanting in my head for the last hour thinking maybe if I say it out loud something's going to happen." So go ahead," Alex said, stopped her in her tracks. "It can't hurt."Em rolled her eyes and looked toward the. They didn't like the type where you had to step over bodies to get anywhere. So often we'd go to ones where you had to walk quite a way to get to the sea, or sometimes ones where you walked down with the crowds and then we'd trundle along the beach for ages until it became a lot quieter. Today it was the first of these options. We'd parked in a little lay-by on a country lane and then were walking for nearly a mile through fields to get there. It was a pleasant walk, although a bit hot, and the. He pulled her disheveled top over her breasts and up her neck, through her hair, and over her head, and dropped it on the floor. Then he deftly reached behind her with one hand, and unhooked her bra; no easy feat with two hands, due to her wide three-hook bras that I was familiar with. Jack made her stand up. As Carol balanced on wobbly legs, Jack unclasped her skirt. I could hear him pulling her zipper down, and he dropped it down to her feet. Carol now stood completely naked except for a. ‘So that’s where the Regent found her.’ Ajax muttered to himself and let the sleeve drop. The compartment was circular and there were shelves built into the walls, filled with all manners of things. Children’s toys, a small gargoyle statuette, and books. He scanned the titles that Nova had collected. The one that caught his eye was a language dictionary, the old-fashioned kind made of paper glued to a stiff, paper-board spine, for converting English-to-Franco/German-to-Mandarin. He slid it off.