"You are not going anywhere and no one is going to so much as ruffle the hairs on your head," Charlie said fiercely. She might not understand what the hell Graham was talking about, but nobody was doing anything to him on her watch! Cool outfit or not!

"You just take a breath," she said more gently. "I'm right here now and even if it's something too much for me, we're in the woods and I can walk us right out of here throuhg the Wood and if they follow us there I'll lead them stright to the AUNTIES and I assure you that they will rue the day they were born!" Okay, maybe she'd gotten rather loud at the end there, but hey, this was Graham they were talking about!