"Pelle shook his head in regret. "I just delivered a load at the forge. 'Twill be a week at least before I come again. How much do you need?"She smile...d, and he could see perfect white teeth, like pearls on a twine. "Only a small bag, less than a pound. Ground up it helps against the trots," she added with a conspiratorial smile."You're really taking up the healing, like your mother?" Pelle asked smiling back."I learned most of her herb lore and but only a little of the healing arts," she. The nurses freaked out and called the doctors, all trying to reason with me.I stood as tall as I could and looked them in the eye. “My wife is being buried today. I intend to be there. Try to stop me and I’ll sue this place into oblivion. We clear?” It helped that I had Michael, Miguel, Jose and Dan with me, each giving off the cop/street-thug glare.They compromised, giving me a portable IV and sending a nurse along with me.There was a collective gasp as I walked into the church holding the IV. And I was no different, apart from the location. Convinced again that no-one could see me from outside, I put a token in the machine, and started to play. The first game always went badly, as I struggled to concentrate. By the time I inserted the third token, my mind was on the job, and I played well. My self-defined set of rules decreed that every time I lost a ball from the next token on, I had to remove an item of clothing.Dropping the fourth token into the slot, I slammed the play button,. The attacker turned out to be female and to live in a town less than an hour’s drive from us. She worked in a hospital too and had been stalking several other authors for many months before making her move.The week after she had damaged my car, she had attacked a vehicle belonging to another erotic author, this time a man, leaving similar spray-painted abuse. The man lived with his wife some three hours’ drive from me which fell in a different Police region, so it had taken a few days for the.