SweetMusicToMyEyes

PROLOGUE "I show you the land in turmoil.  What should not be has come to pass." --Egyptian account of civil strife, 1st Intermediate Period IN LATE EVENING the sun cast the western cliffs into shadow as it set, the shadow growing long and staining the wide flat sands as if the land were bleeding.  Away from the cliffs, still occasionally struck by light, five shadows moved slowly northward. They were far from the river, away from the floodplain; the sand kicked up by the hooves of their mounts glittered redly in the waning light.  Once in a while they would disappear beneath the darkness cast by an outcrop of rock, only to reappear on th

Need Chapter 33 When Nellie Lovett woke up the following morning, she was alone. For a while she was afraid that everything had been nothing more than a dream, but when she noticed the cut clothes on the floor and the sheet around her body, she knew that the heavenly massage Sweeney had given her last night hadn't been a dream at all.   She closed her eyes again and groaned at the memory of feeling his hands on her body. It had been unlike anything she'd ever experienced before. At first it had hurt because her back was so sore, but the pain was exquisite. Sweeney Todd's hands were strong, yet his touches were considerate and gentle; even