And just asI promised I made sure the room stayed very neat. Wellreally that was the easy part as she allowed Lacy todress up to clean the room each w...ek. Of course withthe room much more feminine the nights that Lacystayed over were even more romantic.Soon it was March and we continued to enjoy our timetogether. The strange part was since we knew exactlywhen Lacy would be over each week the tension reallyjust went away and I was able to really get lots ofthings done around the house and yard. Normally, Adela would have avoided such a ruin as best she could. Most places had been picked completely clean in the years shortly after the Rupture, those that hadn’t been immediately infested with monsters from the other world. But the winter had been particularly cruel that year, and several fevers continued to plague Crivedale, the village Adela called home. The witch who served as the village’s healer had sent Adela in search of the old medicines, swearing that they could be restored to. The Mutons knew we lived here now, perhaps they had assumed that all of the farmhouses in the region would be vacant like the one they had found, somehow I didn’t expect them to return to my farm, nor Kadavy’s for that matter.They would need to get their food from somewhere though, and anyone who became hungry enough would also become desperate. If I had my way, it would never have to come to that. I heard Vi’s fat coils descending the staircase to the second floor, and she appeared in the. Eleanor had him sit on the lavatory while she applied the bin bags and then arranged the bathmat, placed the towel handy and turned on the shower. She helped him in."Right," she said. "Grab the soap and do your thing. I'll hold you steady."She did this standing behind him so as not to embarrass him. She made him hold on to the shower pipe while she washed his back for him."I still can't do my feet," he said."Don't worry. I'll do them downstairs as usual. If you sat down in here I'd probably.