I had no idea of the meanings in it of course but I loved it when Dad would come in after a long day and read it to me.’ ‘He adored those Horse Tr...uths, that’s for sure,’ Marcie grinned. ‘He adored a lot of silly things,’ she added wistfully. It was like a piece of the puzzle finally slipped into place. ‘Like you,’ Alyssa said quietly. ‘But you are not so silly. I love you too.’ ‘You knew?’ Marcie asked, her eyes wide. ‘Not until this moment,’ Alyssa confessed. ‘Who is the silly one now? I. I look behind me as you get up out of the water, putting your arms around my waist, you smile at me and I pick you up tossing you into the water. You call me out to you so I swim over. ‘Daddy help my bikini bottoms came off and I can’t find them’ you say with a worried look on your face. I go down and grab your bottoms and slide them onto your body. You kiss my lips lightly like you usually do. ‘Are you hungry?’ I ask you ‘I’m starving daddy’ ‘Lets go order pizza’ you say I tell you to order. In Katie's case it was further enhanced by herchange from a teenager to a little girl in seconds once she was picked upand told it was time for bed. Having what was now a little girl wrap herarms around her neck was sheer joy. The ritual tucking in and goodnightkiss was always the last moment for a child to employ delaying tactics toput off the inevitable and Katie, although not schooled in the methodsused, tried the one that never had never been known to fail. Please may Ihave a story..Mummy.. By the great fire, her father rest, as if asleep in his chair. The chair this day she would take as her own. His head was slumped forward, as it did when he’d taken too much wine. She watched for a moment, praying for his chest to rise in a snore, but she knew it couldn’t. In her shock, she noted the impossibility of her breathing as four arrows were lodged in his chest, pinning him to the simple ash-wood chair. Juniper sprang forward in attempt to rouse him. It was this wailing that caught the.