And then they were back. This time there was no warning, no gradual realisation of unease; one moment my mind was occupied with Jennifer in Balgay House, the next the two figures dominated everything. They were crowding inside my brain, sliding from the unconscious and undetermined into the conscious and rational, seeping into my thoughts and influencing my actions so I cowered from every new sound and started at those that were unfamiliar.
'No!' I might have said the word out loud, but there was nobody to hear. 'No! Go away!'
They remained, pushing ever closer to me as their forms solidified. I could see them clearly now in all but feature. There was one man, tall and broad and potent; and one woman, so thrusting she might be a suffragette; yet so beguiling I could not look away. They w
