It was the tail end of 1939 and the letter came from some obscure place called
Camwood out in the northern borderlands.
Originally young women such as Catherine and Taissa would have been
sent overseas on the passenger liners
that were already taking younger kids to Canada for the duration of the
war with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
There was already a sense that Imperial Japan would make a move
on other British colonies in the spring of 1940.
As Catherine and Taissa rode the slow moving coal gas powered WWI era schoolbus down the ever winding road,they both clutched their gas masks,
unsure of Camwood and whether they would ever see their parents,family and friends
at the coastal Navy port of Doverton ever again.
Catherines brothers had enlisted for the submarine service
and her older sister was learning how to fire a ack ack gun
just in case the Jerries decided to
invade via Doverton's
beaches.
Taissa on the other hand had made her way west from Poland,where she had lived all her life
till the Germans invaded
a few months earlier.
Her father had been a prominent German dissident to Hiltlers rise
to power in the mid 1930s,and still had friends in high places who
had seen that
Taissa VerLotz,daughter of the Count,got safely out of Poland and via secret X Craft
to Doverton.