" You are totally new to this! But it is in at the deep end for you! Just give me some water to swill my mouth with and the bucket to spit blood into ...at the end of each round. Clean up any cuts - and there will be lots! These gloves are lethal mon ami! You can't do much else. And wish me luck, because I fucking need it!"Jeremy sighed. This little scheme was not working out the way he had planned. But Amanda amazed him by her coolness, only seconds away from a fight against impossible odds. The. While I knew that Tok was a fierce protector, I also knew that those birds would have torn her to shreds. I smiled happily when I saw the scene. When Kola noticed I was there she threw herself into my arms and hugged me fiercely. I held her for several minutes until she had calmed down."Are you okay?" I asked her once I was able to pry her from around my body."Yes my mate," Kola replied with a quivering voice, "although I think I soiled myself. The sudden appearance of those creatures. That wasn't Edgar though. Startled she realized there was a strange man in her hut. Not that she knew Edgar all that well, but that was different somehow. “I'm Aidon, Edgar's second,” the voice answered her unspoken question. Okay, this man knew Edgar. So he wasn't a complete stranger. But his comment raised more questions. Edgar's second? What did he mean by that? Her thoughts were interrupted by his movement. It was still quite dark in her home, but she could faintly see his shadow moving. Focusing on the door he waits, the anticipation and tension building. And then she is there, pushing out through the door she looks pleased, there is a smile on her face as she fishes through her purse, pulling out her phone she looks up and down the street as she dials a number. Glancing across the street she sees him, more appropriately she is affected by his presence. As their eyes meet, the phone falls from her hand shattering at her feet, an ominous portent reflecting the fundamental.