The brown-haired Roda looked down at her, hands clasped by her waist. Kasia shrugged."It was when I woke this morning. So much has changed..." I know.... Roda looked around, then back at the girl. "They say we're to do our necessary things anywhere out beyond the wagons. Would you... ?"It only took a moment for Kasia to understand. The idea of being out in the dark alone, exposed, with Elves and monsters all around sent a shiver through her body. She nodded, standing."Sure."They walked out of the. Tim was a reliable and honest lad and so that left me with one more body to find. In the end the other replacement was a surprise to us all. I got home from work about eight that night and Mum was sitting on the sofa reading. She looked up and beckoned me into the sitting room, ‘Come here, sweetheart, I want to talk to you,’ she said. I had a bad feeling in my stomach but hoped that my instincts were wrong she seldom brought up serious matters until after I had finished my supper. ‘It’s about. We can’t know everything ahead of time, so we will continue to train for any possibility that we can think of. There is that possibility, though slim, that you might be shot down and need to defend yourself until help can arrive. Who knows? We train and hope that we never have to use some of that training, but if we do ... Well, we want to be survivors, not dead pushovers.”“Ann,” she quietly said as she turned the aviators over to her Second.“All right. Dump your flight suits for today and. " Itwas certainly not hard to imagine him on a police "mugshot" or wantedposter as he mooched around, never smiling.When Kyle turned up for work on the first morning, Dev's heart sank.Given Kyle's background, he'd expected the worst but looking at theteenager scowling back from under his hoodie made him realise that,with customers at the shop far from plentiful, the sight of Kylescowling at anyone who came through the door could only reduce thefootfall further. The only viable option was to.