I arrived early and sat in my car for ten minutes trying to calm my nerves. I didn’t really know why I was in such a state. Jimmy had noticed last night and questioned me during the adverts.

Varden had slept most of the morning in Si's cave, before waking to the smell of fish cooking over an open fire.

An enchanting slip of a thing...

Death sat down beside me. I didn’t invite him. I wasn’t ready. I was in my regular seat on the train thinking of something to write when he boarded.

The reality of my on-going situation hit me hard earlier today.

The grimy secrets beneath the grim façade.

The people of Centre Valley face a change that some believe will bring about death. Continuing a story about a population living for years at the centre of a great mysterious maze.

The voices of those present ceased and the auditorium became filled with a peculiar silence, an eerie silence, a silence Marianna felt rather uncomfortable with. ‘Something’s wrong,’ she said.