”“I don’t understand,” Sally said.Betsy said, “There are storm clouds gathering on the horizon, and it looks like the storm will be a bad on.... I want you to promise me that you’ll do exactly what I say without question.”“I didn’t hear anything about a storm on the weather report this morning,” Sally said.Betsy took a step forward and lowered her voice. “Sally, I’m not talking weather. I’m talking about a complete collapse of civilization. William’s been busy, lately, and that isn’t a good. I was scrambling over the forested foothills of an old volcano that had formed this island. I stopped. Something didn’t feel right. I was sure I had felt a faint tremor. Then I smelt whiffs of sulphur. I lay flat on my belly and dropped my senses down into the earth.Oh, shit! A massive big pocket of gas was building below, as it was being superheated by magma. The earth felt as if it was being squeezed below my belly. I frantically searched the earth, but the gas and magma had nowhere to go but. "Juniper Hills is not a grand place; we are a rather simple village compared to Conquest Point or even this manor estate," I said sincerely."We are aware of the nature of your homestead, Lord Solon. Our temple members take every opportunity to speak with the members of Lady's Derwen's ship that sells your fish and goods when it comes to port. The crew is a popular source of stories in the city. I doubt they pay for their drinks in any tavern," Honor corrected.Derwen frowned. I was not surprised. It happened a month or so before the quarantine, when the world was still sort of normal. She was a blonde bimbo that he had met on tinder, not the type of woman that one would usually imagine hanging out with my good Nick, but he found her kind of hot and needed a quick bang, and she happened to be on the same page. I guess she was the sort of person you would never start a relationship with, but rather one who you would be delighted to fuck for a whole night, and so it all came out as a.