Imagine introducing your new girlfriend to your mates: “I don’t know her real name, only her working name... Yes, she’s a whore, but I get it fr...ee these days”.Mandy arrived while I was trying to unpick this insight; half past seven on the dot. In an instant, it seemed, I was blindfolded in the back seat of her Volvo and we’d begun the forty-minute drive to her cinema. My mind drew forty-minute circles on a city street map with my flat at the centre, but the exercise didn’t reveal the cinema’s. Scott also discussed with Murdoch the kinds of things that could be traded. He suggested that Murdoch could do worse than begin to cut timber, as he believed there would a market for the many hardwoods that Fife had access to. Murdoch was doubtful but knew Scott seemed to have a knack for this kind of thing so agreed he would give it a try.Back at Oban some of Scott's 'spies' had returned from the north with ominous news. It seemed that a fresh influx of Danes had taken on and defeated the. “Mercy! In the Mother’s Name!” one of the remaining Sparrows pleaded with me.“Like you showed that vendor who simply wanted to make a living? I think not!” I shouted, squeezing out more death for him and his companions.“Because ... he’s an idolater ... and he profits off idolatry,” one of the men tried to excuse himself, even as he pissed his robe.“That’s his business, not yours. I don’t care what a man’s religion is myself. I just want people to mind their own business. Smallfolk just want to. Tom dropped the two Tandra, and advanced, to see how he could help. Tom picked up his rifle as he advanced to Jim's side. The cave had a small entrance that led to a much wider area further back. Just as they were preparing to rush the frightened people behind the rocks, Jim remembered his time chasing down Tandra, in the Umal Mountains."Tom, try to get through to them that we are not going to hurt them. Tell them, that their men are out here, and not hurt. I better go, and drag them in before.