“I feel like I’ve been invited into the spider’s web,” I said, looking around.“I don’t have a kitchen here and I don’t eat young women u...nless I’ve cooked them first,” he laughed. “Look. I don’t even have a couch. No place in my office that a woman could be assaulted. I learned that lesson long ago.”“Really?”“When my accountant told me I’d made my first million, I got pretty full of myself. I figured I could have anything I wanted and that would include the young women who seemed to fawn over. Arrows kept coming but mercifully most missed. Cindi could only remain still hoping his aim got worse rather then better. Each time one hit the pain from the weights would radiate throughout her body. Finally the Master ran out of arrows and had to come to her to retrieve the ones on the ground as none of them had stuck to her. As he was just finishing up they could hear the sound of an aircraft. The Master immediately stored the arrows and walked down to the dock to welcome the new arrivals.. “Oy, you lot. Fuck off ‘ome, you’re not wanted ‘ere.”The speaker was a senior assault leader in the Safety Patrol. His target was a group of eleven people, eight men and three women, standing outside what had been the central police station in Derby. It was locked and boarded up, but oddly for a police station at this time, it was actually, at least from the outside, in pretty good condition. The Patrol had occupied what they considered a better building about a mile away. Closer to the city. Hammer. Most of the season this would be the riding arrangement, because there were just too many to put all the cheerleaders and team on one bus. We were just thankful that Whitney was allowed to ride with the team.Seems like after Thanksgiving all our teachers realized how much there was still to cover in the semester and started heating up our classwork. I found that my once-peaceful mornings brushing the horses were being cut shorter as I used the time while the bread was rising to study. I.