Chapter 2
Gibraltar
The nightmare often returned at the strangest times, each more vivid and shocking than the last, and even for such a strong willed person it was almost unbearable. It had been a long dark tunnel until light came in the shape of a mysterious benefactor responsible for saving her in the Seychelles and then taking her to safety in the tunnel, her home nearly a year. A year of slow recovery from horrendous wounds suffered when she had escaped from Ascension Island after being shot in the stomach and stabbed twice in the chest. Attended to by mysterious servants and at times convinced she was being taken on a train journey through to a different country she slowly grew stronger. She had certainly used up her nine lives.
Her benefactor had brought her here, though everythi
