We’ll both tackle the rooms and get it done really quickly. And as for dinner, Aunty Jackie left one of her home-made lasagnes in the fridge. All we...need to do is heat it up.”Bless his older sister for thinking of everything, she was almost as much of a rock to him as Nicole was. “She did huh. Well, I better call and thank her…” Any excuse to try and escape his daughter before things inevitably escalated again. Nathan started to rise to his feet, but a hand slipped around his wrist and pulled. The firing stopped and a few of them scrambled over the top, inching forward, ready to drop at the first indication of trouble. After about a minute without any further gunfire, the men began to move forward in small rushes, from tree to tree. They found in the short underbrush that they were in a narrow valley and were facing a steep climb up a hill only a few dozen yards in front of them. Then it happened.With a pop, the logs that held the dam together upstream began to shift. First it was a. Thenhe forced her body forward; she bent easily at the waist. He spread her kneesapart and continued to press forward. When he found that he was able to forceher head to her crossed ankles he released her and grinned sardonically asher body uncoiled. Now, he arranged her arms so that he could draw them inside her knees, afterfastening one end of a rope to her right wrist he firmly took hold of eachof her wrists and placing a knee in the center of her back forced her limberbody to double up on. He pulled Dylan against the side of the building, not wanting to be seen.He moved a little further down the side of the building. The voice was droning on, he could hear it but he couldn’t understand what it was saying. He got to the end of the building. If he went any further, he’d be seen by the folks in the field. He could tell by now from peeks he’d taken that there were a lot of folks standing in the field, with their hands up.What the hell? he thought. Dylan leaned towards him, and.