CHAPTER VII
Facts of AfterlifeLucille searched frantically through the ash-coated, bombed-out shell of 14 Peony Place, but without much success — it seemed that she could touch nothing in her dream-world, save the ground upon which she stood. Thus, being unable to physically search through the smouldering debris, it was agonisingly difficult for her to be certain that no human remains were mixed with it, but she had dreamed of this appalling future often enough — and had seen more than enough charred and mangled bodies — to fear the worst. For all of Lucille’s efforts not to allow immortality and power to go to her head, it was becoming all too easy for her to sympathise with Anne Straker’s low opinion of humanity; it certainly seemed to have a talent for decimating itself in ways which n
