Out of nowhere, an old man had appeared and leered "Can I help you?" I whipped round round like an injured snake and came face to face with the strangest man I had ever seen. He looked about 60, with a forest entangling from his nostrils. But the lightning threw his face in to sharp relief and a deep scar ran from down his dull grey eyes to his hairy chin. "Um-I-ah" I stammered and couldn't take my eyes from him. "No really, I do insist" he replied calmly. He crept up on me holding a bloodstained dagger...