I was tied in a chair directly in front of him and two, or possibly three dark-suited men stood around me. One of the large guys had my blood on his l...ather gloved hand. I was hurting.I tried to spin a mending command around me, to take away the pain but after a couple of tries, I realised with shock that something had left me.Shaw watched my struggle and smiled even more broadly. "I almost feel sorry for you." He chuckled "You have none of the training that this sort of situation calls for,. I went out and made sure everything was okay. It didn’t take long as most things were still secured from the previous storm. I found a couple of tarps that needed snugging up and there were the shutters to close over the windows. The generator was running and the fuel tank was full so we should be okay for a few days.As I approached the door I could hear Jennifer talking and realized she was talking to Maggie. Maggie is a really good listener, never complaining if you tell her the same story. ”David had read about the sort of places Mary was talking about, but never imagined he would know anyone who went to them, let alone his own mother and father.“I don’t know what to say Mary,” he said, “my head is spinning, l need to let my head clear…l’m going home.”Mary realised there was no point in persuading him to stay, she was disappointed but knew that if she pushed him too hard it would be counter productive, also she knew that sooner or later she would have to face her daughter so once. "Do we stay or can we go? Has the hardware been disassembled and shipped out?" The teleportation system and the replicator are gone," Nimue told me, "but the computer and the power plant are still up and running. Richards has begun the shut down process but he says there are safety procedures that need to be followed. According to him it will take another hour before he can start shipping things out." Then we need to hold," I said with a sigh, turning my gaze towards the enemy forces once.