The mother-daughter pair only spent a few minutes at the main office after. The chauffeur made a careful turn and started down the road they came from, soon they were on the newly paved highway. The painkillers Báine ingested earlier began to do their work and she slept curled up, her head rested on Melanie's lap. The mother sneaked pictures when she was sure the little one had fully surrendered to dreamland then indulged herself in a novel. Thick fog crawled onto the highway, the chauffeur turned on the headlights. When they approached the tunnel Melonie began to pay more attention to the road, the highway was quiet and lonely in this stretch. The dark stillness of the tunnel was rudely disturbed. Seemingly out of nowhere an engine deafening roared and its white lights blinding in the wid
