13 June

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 13 June:

1. King Ludwig II, 40, king of Bavaria, sometimes called the Swan King, the Fairy tale King or the Mad King, because he was deposed on grounds of mental illness, died on this date in 1886 at the age of 40. He is best known as an eccentric who commissioned the building of extravagant fantasy castles. The day after he was deposed, he was found drowned in a shallow pool of water. Murder or suicide? Nobody knows.
2. In 2003, a 27 year old prison cook died after falling into a cauldron of bean soup at a prison in Sri Lanka. He was knocked into the pot when another cook slipped on the wet floor.
3. In 1923, Vegemite was first sold in Australia. It was launched to compete with British Marmite.
4. In 1842, Queen Victoria overcame her reluctance to travel by train and boarded one for the first time. She went from Slough (near Windsor Castle) to Paddington, accompanied by Prince Albert. On her first journey, the engine driver was assisted by the great civil engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
5. In 1995, a failed novelist called Huang Chia-yuan attempted suicide in a somewhat roundabout way: he attacked six cars with a hammer in the hope their owners would kill him. However, the police intervened and he escaped with severe bruising.
6. In 1905, a mutiny began on the Russian battleship Potemkin after sailors were shot for complaining about maggots in their meat.
7. In 1962 Frank Lee Morris and the Anglin brothers escaped from Alcatraz using a rowing boat. They are the only prisoners believed to have successfully escaped.
8. In 1831 a young woman named Lucy Lightfoot, who was obsessed with a wooden statue of Edward Estur, a crusader, used to visit his shrine every day. On this particular day, she left her horse outside the church and went in as usual. While she was there, a violent storm and a Solar Eclipse occurred, and Lucy never emerged. Her horse was still there, but Lucy had vanished. A dagger had been torn from the effigy’s hand and lay in fragments on the altar. It was later discovered that Estur had known a woman called Lucy Lightfoot in the 14^th century.
9. In 1920, the US Post Office Department ruled that children may not be sent by parcel post.
10. In 1967, in Melksham, Wiltshire, a tornado lifted a cricket pavilion off the ground with 50 people inside.

The Power of Love

Willow believes in crystal healing, cosmic  ordering  and the significance of chance  encounters. She believes there's a spiritual  explanation for everything. Except she struggles to find a reason why she can turn herself into  mist and create a wave of energy which can slam a would-be mugger into a wall. Or why the love of  her life left her for a mysterious woman in sunglasses, who then disappeared without trace.  

A chance encounter with Firebolt, leader of the Freedom League superhero team, in a Glastonbury coffee shop, does turn out to be significant. He offers her a new start and the chance to use her powers for good.

Servant is a Christian who has joined the Freedom League in order to use his teleporting power to serve God. He and Willow clash from the start, yet they are drawn inexorably to one another.

When Willow leaves the team abruptly for reasons unknown, Servant knows he must put her out of his mind and find a nice Christian girl to settle down with. He is about to propose to devout and straight-laced Ruth, when Willow returns and turns his entire world upside down.

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