Standing upon Maria’s arrival, Miss Ellsworth said, “You will have to excuse me, Maria, but before I speak to you I wish to see your acade...ic records. They are down in the basement. If you would please follow me?” Rolling her dark eyes in her expressive Latin face, Maria muttered “Great” and followed Sara down into the basement. After following her teacher, that slut, down two flights of stairs and through a locked door which looked unused for decades, Maria. “Cassie?” I said.“I told you wait your turn and its fifty quid?” the dark guy said nastily.“Are you charging again Guido?” Cassie said dozily, “That really is very naughty.”“Well that gear you like don’t grow on trees does it?” Guido replied.“It does actually,” I suggested, “Its the refining and transportation which costs.”“Wise guy eh?” He queried but the two guys were now starting to throw punches and he turned away.“You wanted a ride home?” I suggested.“No, its fun I want to stay,” Cassie. He slid out of the tent and scanned the area with his flashlight. There was a clean crust of icy snow on the ground and Keith thought absently that it was a shame to spoil it with urine. He found a place against the overhang downhill from the tent to relieve himself as he gazed up at the millions of visible stars. They were scintillating. With no city within a hundred miles to light up the sky, nothing interfered with the clarity of the patterns. It crossed Keith’s mind that Gutenberg could. The evening was still viable in his mind. "I'll get you a cover," said Joanne as Terry struggled to stay awake."Thanks," he murmured as his eye lids became heavier, but allowed him to observe the scene of Dikesh and Joanne heading up the stairs together hand in hand. The bastard. She was supposed to be for him. He was also getting cold. His eyelids gave up.It seemed like a blink of the eye was all the time that had passed before Terry was woken by the sound of footsteps coming downstairs. He.