As before, the fellow vanished by the time the screaming subsided from the direction of Culleybrook. Leopold expected to find another pile of dead vil...agers wielding dull axes as weapons, but was surprised to find, instead, the corpses of the invaders. Edwin Sipe was not among them.The blue apparition stood near an empty fountain in the marketplace, sipping casually from a metal goblet, when Leopold ventured back into the small town. The cannibalistic rangers lay motionless on the ground, with. Sharon, in a smart chauffeur uniform, was standing next to the gleaming Rolls. She greeted them and opened the door; Bill found himself sitting in the middle of the comfortable seat, with a young woman snuggling up to him each side.They arrived at the substantial building which was Etty’s childhood home.“Don’t get out yet,” Sharon said, “let me do my job.” She exited the vehicle and trotted round to open the door which let Etty out, followed by Bill and Candy. Etty stood, gazing at the house,. "Take her out, and teach her she is only a concubine," he said to the Chief Eunuch, who had arrived to see what the problem was, "But do not demote her. She stays number two."The Chief Eunuch hustled her out and when they were safely out of earshot he said, "What are we to do with you? He wants you but you screw it up like this. Of the less than a dozen sessions he has had with women, four have been with you and you are the only one he has had twice. You were his first choice and he has. Until this particular evening, her mental stability, frame of mind, and even her ability to communicate had been adversely affected by the events on the square some four weeks ago. In the past week, she had made some progress and was actually speaking so that her family could understand her, such was her complete collapse.The extended absence of both girls from what would normally have been a very short outing to get water from the community well never became an issue, once Brandon started.