He felt a pain and a despair greater than he had ever felt before, and a loneliness beyond all loneliness.
‘I’ll get you out of there!’ he cried. ‘Help me. Tell me what I must do!’
Her voice seemed to shriek in his head and he clapped his hands over his ears as though that would keep it out, crouching on the ground, rocking backwards and forwards, moaning, the pain almost unendurable. It felt as though his mind was being taken over by several different minds. Thoughts that were not his own were crowding in on him. It was as though he were hearing the voice of the girl across a crowded room, a room in which everyone present was shouting at everyone else...
‘Stop it!’ he cried. ‘Stop it!’ But ‘they’ did not stop and ‘he’ did not know how to make them. He could no longer tell which were hi
