.." She sighed, and tears glistened."Ladies?" she called.If it had been a movie about cowboys and Indians, they would haveappeared on the horizon. The...shop wasn't quite big enough, but Martin hadthe same feeling as a dozen or more Faerie seemed to just appear. Theywatched him from the shelves, perched on jars, a couple on the counterbefore him. Then there were gasps of wonder as Thistle flew up, carryingOrchid her daughter.Wendy seemed to stagger, finding a chair to collapse into. "New. The remaining few came around the corner firing their weapons, "oh shit!" Alan yelled as he disappeared appearing behind the few still moving. Alan looked close seeing that they had a make shift type of mental shield around them. Pointing at each, their packs fell off then Alan had all of the remaining boosted ones as Varick had called them unconscious. Varick appeared beside him a moment later, "The idiot must be getting desperate to attack like this," Varick told him. "No this was a ruse to. You know that bit of Kipling, 'the Elephant's Child' I think it is, where he talks about going down to 'the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River'? I finally understood what he meant about greasy – there was no foam or energetic turbulence, just a sluggish, almost slow-motion, surface movement as the water from the Valleys headed slowly but unstoppably to the sea. Mind you, I've also watched the Taff in spate, very close to flooding over the football pitches and parkland, and that is quite a. "Where did you find this?" he askedBlushing, in a squeaky embarrassed voice, she said, "I actually bought it from a mail order place a long time ago to surprise you before you got the job here. While I was looking for your soaps in my things tonight, I found the package. I'd never even opened it."He dropped his tongue between her cheeks and licked, making her start. His nose filled with a strawberry scent he quickly identified with a lube they used on occasion. They had never experimented with.