"In days gone past we 'acclaimed' our leaders. What matters to us if Gina is acclaimed or proven rightful heir by DNA scan? It's the politics of the t...hing that matters. A Fladomir who's also of the Black Guard, and a Durrutti to boot, can only bring good things to the Bakhunins." You're thinking in terms of alliances?" Perhaps a way to insure a healing of the breach?" I accept that," Roger shook his head. "But Gina is, well, only just thirteen. How do you expect her to take responsibility?. It was a long way and we were very weak. We alternated floating and paddlingon our backs with regular crawl. It seemed like it was taking forever. Finallyas the sun was beginning to lighten the eastern sky we approached the shore.With a final effort we covered the last hundred yards and pulled our spentbodies up onto the grass. There we collapsed. In the distance I heard dogsbarking. I came to with a cold nose on my cheek and another at my crotch. I raisedmy burned and puffy face to see people,. The skin was ripped and falling off drip by drip. The mouth showed enormous worms crawling out and she looked up and seen Rebecca ugly and horrible in the face like a decomposed corpse and the eyes glowed. Marlowe began to scream and the ghost hollered give me your baby, give it to me, the sound was ghostly and echoed.Marlowe quickly jumped up and shrilled out loud a horrible scream. Loud and louder she screamed again and then fainted. The children were never awakened. In the morning she had. Not much longer after that wereached the atv. We pushed it back out of the thickets and back on thetrail. We both climbed back on and started the engine. "Let's get back tothe mine. We have a lot of things to talk about." I told Chris as we spedup the trail.Back at the mine Josiah was getting very worried that something had gonewrong. He was told that they would only be gone a few hours and here itwas now almost dusk. He was too scared to venture out of the mine on hisown, but he did have Lucky.