But when she jumped aboard with her deer-hide sack of tools and memorabilia (but no clothes as neither women regarded them as essential), she was surp...ised to find that her lover hadn’t joined her. ‘Demure!’ Glade hissed. ‘Where are you?’ ‘Here,’ said Demure from the shore where she was securing another raft for herself and not one that belonged to her. It was Glade who was usually careless of property rights. After all, ownership wasn’t a concept she’d ever been aware of before she came to. "He'll tell you when he sees you," came the gruff reply from number three.The rest of the journey was in silence then the car pulled into an underground parking lot and the sunlight disappeared taking all my remaining courage with it. I was hauled out of the back seat and pushed into a lift up to the tenth floor. I walked into a thickly carpeted room and I knew I could definitely do with a major shit now; my insides were doing the polka."Thank you for coming," he said, I labelled him boss. . ?" ... About people turning into savages, and attacking each other! Fuck, Martin! There's only a few dozen people left alive, far as we know, in the whole fucking country, and these cock-suckers have to come at us with rifles! It's insane!" But it's predictable, Carter. Hell, boy, you predicted it yourself!" I was cautious at first. But then, I got to feeling secure. I thought, with there being more than 20 of us, we were, y'know -- safer." It's going to be a while, Carter. Maybe a long. This train or thought always brought him back to the incident that changed everything. He recalled his youthful arrogance, his brutal taunting and vile abuse of the raggedy old woman in the park just because his friends were watching. Big man?so smug and sure of himself? The old woman had a strange twinkle in her eye that day?and he remembers her fixing her one good eye upon him and the world had gone cold. Everything had disappeared but her, her evil eye, and her crooked finger with the.