***James***
"Is Serena okay? How did she look?" I ask Valmir urgently as he jumps down from the window. I immediately grab hold of his upper arms and look at him intensely.
"Whoa, calm down there loverboy, she's alive. Her neck looks bad, though. It's bled through the dressing and I can smell that its infected. She's going to the barn and that is where we will now head, so we can get her out of here," he says, running past me to the staircase. I follow him up the stairs and out of the basement, colliding with a heavily built man with dark hair as we exit the doorway. I feel stunned momentarily as I fall back onto my bottom and indeed, almost back down the staircase; for it was like hitting a metal wall.
"Oh bloody hell," Valmir sighs as he realises it is Austin who we have both just run
