TWENTY-SIX
Spotty was quick off the mark and made no moves on Mandy. As they settled she leaned over and whispered, ‘Got a girlfriend, Spotty?’ He blushed, and acknowledged his new found status on the telly had them lining up, well, one anyway. ‘Good,’ she said, ‘one your own age?’ He could not have gone redder, nodded, then kicked off; a trooper as Jack would say. He introduced Mandy and the Commander.
The Commander started by summarising the events of the previous two days; the executions, and he named those victims who had been identified. He emphasised it was important for the public not to react, the police had several lines of inquiry and were hopeful of tracking down the perpetrators. He also suggested the motive may be to generate a hostile reaction, and stressed, this is not the
