The image came into her own mind. Waking up one morning several months after Bennett’s rise to see the man’s head staked to the door of the Parker building. “Anyway,” Kaiya said. “It was the eldest daughter’s fifteenth birthday, only a few months after they took you, and… well she had four kids, the mother. Meant you couldn’t ever have anyone over, cause you’d be in a group of more than three excluding immediate family in the home. But they had a party anyway. She invited me, you know…”
Kaiya looked back down at the second-storey window that had been dark for over two years.
“I was too scared to go. I watched the people come, one by one, spaced apart, like we all learnt to do, but someone reported them, and… that was it. They came at night, seven of them. Police. I don’t know all the det
