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The blackness was absolute.
Until it wasn't.
Colours swam around me, forming a chain of pictures that had nothing to do with one another. I suspected they were all moments from my life, but it was impossible to be sure of that as none of them stayed for long enough for me to be sure. I tried to reach out and grab hold of one of them, but my hand was frozen still next to the rest of my body.
Somehow I was aware of that. And not at the same time. It was almost like I was in the deepest sleep I could imagine, but at the same time, there was no way of me hearing what was going on around me. At least I'd been in camp when I'd bitten into the apple and collapsed.
Anger seethed within me. How had Katya done this? Had the other people who'd eaten the apples collapsed too? That was what I w
