A chill like none Alina had ever felt filled the shack. She could see her breath and stared in stunned shock as the tears on Corina’s face began to ...freeze. “Corina?” Alina was frantic now. The old woman shook her head violently. “No! You cannot take me now! Do not leave her to this fate alone! Not now! Not after all I have done to keep her safe. ‘Twould be for naught!” She was looking at Alina, speaking as though she we were talking to Alina, but she wasn’t. She was speaking to someone else…to. Lisa: This outfit is ridiculous.Me: Hahaha! You look like one of those maids you see in the movies.Lisa: In porn movies!Me: Hahaha! Are you about to get naked for me?Lisa: You wish we were in a porn movie!Me: I can dream.Lisa: Hey! I’ll dust you off!She dusting my face with the brush.Me: Oh no! The pain!Lisa: Hahaha! Get dusted!Me: You know, if we were in a porn movie I would be doing that to you. But not with the duster.Lisa: Hahaha! Stop it! You’re making me laugh and we have work to do!Me:. A human runner has no chance of outstripping a horse in open country or on a pathway and so he was catching up with her when she saw the dogs and men who had checked downstream coming up the path towards her. Veering right off the path towards some more woodland she lost her footing and fell. Quick as a flash Ramzy El-Najjar dropped from the saddle and grabbed her."Let go," she said indignantly, "Bloody beginner. You have me and I lie down and you hold me with your foot. Don't tread on me hard. My dad and his family weren’t supposed to talk to me about church at all.”“Seriously?” I asked.“It made life a LOT easier for everyone, and I’m pretty sure my dad figured once I turned eighteen, he could influence me to go back to church. He was pretty happy when I called him the other night.”“I can imagine,” I replied.“What else did Father Nicholas say to you?” Lara asked.“Not much, really, other than he approved of the cautious, deliberate approach we’re taking. But I think he has the idea.