MONDAY 20 OCTOBER
He woke up in absolute darkness, and that in itself was a relief. For a while he wondered if he’d woken up at all or if he was dead. It was only when he tried to sit up and felt the incredible pain of his injuries that he knew for sure he was still alive and his nightmare wasn’t yet over. He felt a bizarre sense of disappointment, then elation when he thought he might yet get to see Sam, then gut-wrenching fear because no matter how fierce the energy pulse he’d survived had been, he knew there was worse to come. The inevitability of the next pulse was even more terrifying than the reality of the last.
Where the hell am I?
He lay still and looked around but it was a struggle to focus and he could make out little more than a few indistinct shapes. He tried to shift posit
