As quickly as I could, I gave Buster a wave to get his attention and pointed towards the source of the noise, then did my best to hide in the shadows.� It wasn�t perfect cover, but hopefully if our new arrivals were hostile, they would focus on Buster as the obvious target giving me a chance to surprise them.� I slid a dagger from my belt, but kept it close to my body, so that it wouldn�t be an obvious threat, just in case I was spotted.
Due to the cart, we needed to meet outside.� Prue had chosen an out of the way location, which meant that we shouldn�t be disturbed.� An undesirable side effect was that we didn�t have good visibility and anyone could approach and be upon us � hopefully upon Buster if it came to it � with little time for us to react.
I took a breath to calm myself, then checked the skyline.� People never look up.� I didn�t want to get surprised while focusing on the new arrivals.� Luckily there were no new threats that I could see.
Three figures appeared in the drizzle, still indistinct, but the right size and shape for the companions we were expecting.� I couldn�t help thinking that if I had organised an attack on Nana, Prue and Effren that I would pick three attackers with the same rough size and shape as our party members, dress them in their cloaks and sent them to finish the job. I really regretted that I hadn�t been more insistent about us having a hand signal or two that we could use to visually announce our presence.