A shelter from what I mused as again more spray lashed over the sea wall and straight into where we were. I unzipped my jacket and Rachel slipped her ...arms inside and around my body. Pulling her close I wrapped my jacket around her and did up the Velcro storm tab cocooning us together. Her small body fairly quivered against me as she rested her head on my chest. I could feel the warmth of her hands through my clothes as we stood there. First moving her right hand down and then her left, she. "Yes, bit rough around the edges, but they're all there," I replied."Why don't you bring your laptop upstairs and we can read it in bed?" she asked with a smile."Sounds like a plan, do you want to go up first?" I asked."Please," was all she said.I gave Annie a few minutes before ascending the stairs to the bedrooms, finding her mostly under the covers in the guest room where I was to sleep, seeing only the top of a bra and I presumed she was for the minute keeping her panties on."Beautiful," I. My name is Barbara, how may I help you?’ slid from her mouth like a waterfall over a cliff, smooth and supple. She nodded along to the two minutes of soft jazz that followed, staring intently at that last drawer. It was her boss’s drawer, the one she had been ordered never to open. *Why?* she wondered. Why shouldn’t she open it? She had the key, after all. She didn’t feel cross at the soft, warm voice that said good-bye to her from the handset. Alone with her thoughts again, she decided that. "Ever heard of a place called Dingwall?" Umm, not really..." I say, making Lauren chuckle."No one has," Lauren laughs. "It's about 15 miles north ofInverness..." Good god!" I gasp. "How long did that take you on the train?" I flew!" Lauren laughs. "About a third the price of the train and it'san hour and forty minutes instead of ten hours!" First time flying?" I ask."Aye," Lauren confirms. "Well, the auditions were, anyway. Also thefirst time I'd ever left Scotland... Can I tell you something.