“So me mother” I didn’t need to raise my head to see her nod. XXX I placed a hand upon the girl’s brow and another upon her hand, closing the circle that my bare feet and cold stone started. “Every year that old man”. … Slowly I opened my eyes and gasped. “So me mother” I didn’t need to raise my head to see her nod. “James!” my mother waved her hand in front of my face trying to get my attention. Suddenly I was aware I wasn’t alone, beside me stood the girl I rescued, awake and well. “Every year that old man”. … My mother was rather attractive for a older woman, with pearl milky skin and sunlight colored tresses, she still held the regal and slim figure of a woman half her age. My mothers voice came back to focus.




















