Chapter Eleven
Elsie nodded, wishing she could tell her mum everything that had happened. But there was no way she could convince her of anything. "I just need to use the toilet."
"You weren't woken by a nightmare?" Brenda took a few steps back so she could turn on the hallway light.
Elsie pulled the bedroom door closed behind her, worried her mum would see something with the amount of light now in the hallway. "Are you trying to wake Marinda?"
"I'm sure she wouldn't tease you about your nightmares," Brenda said. "You don't have to hide them from her. She'd be as protective of you as she is about your fear of blood."
"Mum! Do you want to give me nightmares?" She tried not to think of the images that word conjured and tried not to think about what Caidon would think of her mum's commen
