Then the noise started up again but it was moving away from her now. She straightened her legs and then went up on her toes to peer over the logs. Jus... above the tallest of the bushes she saw a head of tangled brown hair. Carl! She breathed a sigh of relief that she had eluded him.If he found her out here there was no telling what he would do. The least of her worries was that he might make her tell him where she hid her money. Unconsciously her hand moved to press against the vee between her. Die Zeit verging ewig langsam. Zwischendurch öffnete ich mehrmals die Handtasche und schnupperte an der Krawatte mit Annes Duft. Gegen 16:30 Uhr (also eine halbe Stunde vor Feierabend) teilte mir die Pforte mit, mein Geschäftstermin sei eingetroffen und auf dem Weg in mein Büro. Mein Geschäftstermin? Ich hatte doch gar keine Termine heute mehr. Ich war neugierig, wer das sein soll und war schon sauer. Doch plötzlich stand Anne in meinem Büro. Sie schien von Arbeit gekommen zu sein, zumindest. He invited us to stay in the guest house overnight rather than have to drive up the day of the game or to motel it if we were to come up the night before. I demurred. We’d see about any rapprochement after our meet up with Abigail. If that worked out we’d be going to stage two but not before. The man didn’t push it.We had indeed come up the night before and we had stayed in a local motel. It was only $45 per night, so it didn’t kill us financially.The game was at 1:00 p.m. I had driven my truck. It was written in First Speak and it was unspeakably old. Not even a human adept would recognise it for what it was. It was crudely illuminated in dull ochre and rusty hues. The contents in that book were written in faded hieroglyphs, utterly incomprehensible to anyone who wasn't literate in First Speak. Naturally, the bookseller couldn't make head or tail of it. First Speak has seventy-two alphabets. There are eight different ways of pronouncing the vowels alone but thankfully the consonants.