CHAPTER TWENTY ONE.
I knew they wouldn’t have allowed me into the Little chapel, and it was oddly liberating that I got something right on my own after waking up in a strange land of trees.
“You know what?” Mum asks, breaking me out of my reverie.
Hmmm. “Umm, nothing really”
She eyes me up and down for a while, before her eyes came to rest on the tiny spiky seeds that had gotten stuck on my Top. Feeling the urge to give an explanation even when she didn’t ask for any, I go off anyway to give one.
“I didn’t know there was a clear path to the chapel, I just sighted the house from here, and I made a way for myself through the bush, only to realize that the bush only led to the back of the house.”
“And I’m guessing you still went through the so called bushes to come back?” Mum asks, al
