Annie sighed, taking Kat's wrist gently she lead the woman to the seats by the bar where they had first sat after Annie's first arrival. She walked round behind the bar and helped herself, placing a bottle of deep red wine on the counter alongside two shapely glasses. Reaching under her sleeve she pulled a long thin wire from her wrist and drove it into the cork of the bottle, effortlessly opening it with a simple tug. The wire zipped back under her sleeve as she poured two large glasses.
"The short version..." she said, taking an appreciative glug of the wine and smiling to herself. "She attacked me and is now no longer with us..."