"Yes. Now tell me about the people of Saint Louis? The city is dead but there are still people living there. That could be important." I prompt him."W...at do you want to know?" he leans away from me so he can look down at my face."Tell me a bout the Nightingales? Who are they?" I ask."Oh they were Hospital workers and the like. As far as they tell it. Their founders didn't want to leave those hospital patients alone to evacuate. So the stayed. They were the ones who saw us enter the hospital and. "Thanks so much for letting Janie bring me home. The dorm gets old after awhile, and I live too far away to get home except between semesters." Mark's from Colorado," Janie explained."Well, dinner's just about ready," Grace said. "Why don't you guys put your bags down and come into the kitchen?"I had been really quiet throughout all of this. I hoped Mark didn't think I was weird. But having a real living, breathing gay man in my house was really turning me on. I stood with my hands covering my. She was never into wearing reavealing clothes of any sort. I got a decent look down her shirt every now and then though when horsing around. She reminded me of a proper lady, like a Southern Belle from the olden days. One day it was after school and it was just Karen and I. I always walked her home and sometimes hung out for a bit at her place. Today it was just me and her, in her room, because her computer was in there. Both of her parents weren't due to be home until later in the evening and. ‘It was quite chaotic at Tioram. Ye’ve seen how big the island is and the surrounding area, so ye know how packed it must ha’e been wi’ hundreds of men and animals. Kyla’s brothers and all the Fraser’s horses had been brought there, but the Fraser men stayed tae protect Stalker from attack. Sloan and the other leaders, Grayson, Garreth, Braedon and Glenn, went out on horseback and rode along the River Shiel, looking fer areas tae use Sloan’s idea of pits wi’ spikes and any other means of.