”I got out of the car and started making my way to the school gate when I noticed a couple of boys staring at me. As I approached them, I saw they w...re two of the lads in Tin Tin’s gang. I went past them, they both nodded their heads.One of them said, “Alright?”I looked at him and smiled, nodding my head.As I entered the school yard, most of the students that were there just stopped what they were doing. I just looked around, found the nearest empty bench to sit down. I took my backpack off my. ’ Dave believed her. He called, telling his partner to stow the weapons and bring the child. The other man was huge, burly with muscles. He was smiling until he saw Dave with bloody towels over his foot and the woman holding the pistol. ‘That’s right, sugar, just send him on up to me and everything will be fine.’ Damn, she thought. She had tried for years to erase her southern accent, and it still popped out when she was really stressed. He hesitated until Dave warned him. ‘Don’t do anything. Eventuallybringing home various kits and tools they could immediately startpracticing with before I had to be back at work after the Christmasbreak.Mercifully it was soon evident that they were both fine craftsmen, eachpatiently waiting their turn to transform into their own bodies to designand create in Siobhan's case several small finely detailed items ofmetalwork and artefacts in much the same style as the ones she had boughtat the village shop, whilst Brendan produced his customary fine. After we put the blindfolds on, they carefully walked us into the room then slammed the door and locked it. We both gave a silent scream. Terrified and excited at the same time, we did not completely understand what was going to happen to us. Suddenly I felt someone grab me and bend me over forward. I felt something hard on my wrists and then felt my hands being tied together by rope. A sense of helplessness and dread flooded my senses. Never before had I felt as vulnerable as I did that.