Lisa was out for a walk with Sukie in town. Shan wouldn’t let her go out on her own, but she thought Sukie would be enough protection.

That made the shock when Sukie limped back into Samoto on her own even worse…

Shan frantically phoned Lisa. No answer. Then she got another text…

“Warned you, bitch. You didn’t listen. Now Lisa’s going to suffer because of you. How many more friends would you like to lose before you release the maids?”

Shan grabbed Hannah and Sandy, then got Sukie to take them back to the scene of the crime…

Despite being a human in a dog suit, not a dog, Sukie’s tracking skills were better than anyone else’s. She found the trail of blood on the ground.

It was Shan, though, that found the new statue in the middle of the city centre roundabout. It was solid and very heavy, quite impossible to move. It was also seamless.

Through a small, tinted visor, almost invisible unless you were up close, Shan could just see Lisa’s eyes, staring hopelessly back out at her. Her capturer had wanted her to know where she was, see everyone going past and be utterly helpless at the same time.

Shan just let out an animal-like howl of rage and slumped to her knees. Her fiancée was now a piece of modern art, buried alive in a statue in the middle of a roundabout. It was ironic, in a way, seeing as Shan had rescued her from a similar fate in the gardens at Samoto.

Something snapped in Shan, then.

Racing over to the nearby transport café, she saw a lorry was pulling in. She dived at it just as it stopped. The driver, thinking he had hit her, jumped out to see if she was ok.

Shan, knocking him out, jumped into the cab. She then drove the lorry straight at the statue…

There was a horrendous crash. The lorry was written off and the statue torn out of the ground. It fell on its side, cracked. Finding a toolbox in the lorry, Shan attacked the statue.

Lisa’s unconscious body fell out.

Shan picked her up and tenderly carried her back to Samoto, Sukie following close behind.

Lisa ended up in the bed next to Stacey in the medical bay. She was still aware, but the combination of the statue and the violent way that she had been removed, especially in her weakened condition, had paralysed her from the waist down. She would need a wheelchair for the rest of her life…