” He sat back down as everyone else bowed their heads forward briefly, completing the prayer.That was even more unusual. Father followed the war god... of course—everyone in the valley did—but they rarely bothered with prayers unless the village priest joined them for a meal. Was the visitor a priest? And he’d called Father cousin, though that word had many meanings among the peerage.As they ate, Father said, “Boys, I’d like you to meet my cousin, Jesson, a knight out of Fort Hightower.”They all. .”“Just what, Rann?”“Ever since you became a teenager, your eyes have drawn me to you. Sometimes I think of you, as much, much more than my little sister.”“Hmmmm? Exactly, how much more?”She was playing this for all it was worth.“You’ve become such a beautiful woman, C, and you seem to get prettier every time I look at you.”“Oh, Rann ... I’ve noticed how you look at me; sometimes I get ideas in my head, thinking about my big brother.”“Really,” I said, astonished at hearing that.“Now, give me. If I had known then what I know now, I would have let my fingers linger on her lips for much longer when we were together at the theatre. And I would have made more of our time at the waterside in Stratford-upon-Avon.~~~Emily and her team were pushed around the country every minute of the day. On one such occasion, Emily flew to RAF Filton, in Bristol. She was eager and keen to be going to such a prestigious airfield as far as aircraft were concerned. She had joked, only the previous day in. Now my husband has been away for 5 months and he was going to come home and he had to come back for something and I don’t know until this day which was 15th of May and he left in January and I got a phone call on the 13th of May from him and my son was out visiting a friend and I got the phone call saying he would be home on the 15th and he’ll be here for 3 months and I said “ok honey see you then” with a bit of why the fuck is he coming back for and then my son came home and I told him and he.