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Twinsen, feeling that he had taken far too many chances already, didn’t risk not getting away with another one. He sat at the opposite end from the thug, looking out to his home, Citadel Island. Although he had the option of trying to shoot his enemy with the Laser Pistol there was always the chance that his enemy would shoot him first.
The thug tied up the speedboat at the harbour and walked slowly and carefully behind Twinsen, never keeping his eyes or his gun of his captive’s back. Twinsen didn’t try to play up, not least for fear of having his family shot. He led the thug to his house and calmly collected The Book of Bú. (if he didn’t have it, otherwise he just collected a few things which he needed)
A few minutes later Twinsen was led out of his house back to the harbour wall. His tunic stood out on him, making him look like the real hero that he was. He sat respectably where he was put and never turned around, for fear of the enemy panicking like he realised his driver was prone to. As the speedboat pulled out and broke the water on the way back to Desert Island a figure stepped out of the shadows. Raph the lighthouse keeper had witnessed all of it and had sworn to himself that he was going to help his friend, he realised that Twinsen had helped him far more times than he had in return. . . .
This happened next. . . - Paragraph 6
