It was a deep longing like the compulsion to see a lover; she simply had to go there and it was unthinkable that she would not go. Country folk have long memories and going back as far as records go and as far as myths go, which is a lot further, there was a chain of missing girls in an area of around one or two miles of the farm where Gilly lived. xnx Gilly’s parents had rushed out into the night with the intention of carrying their effects out of their cottage before the fire took the old building but when they saw the flame they had been transfixed by it and simply stood staring up at the brilliant blue flare which looked like a knife blade thrust up into the air.
