Chapter 9
I was wet, I was uncomfortable, and I wished that I’d stayed at home in Sector D. I’d wanted adventure but, to be honest, I’d already experienced enough adventure for a lifetime, thank you very much. Two lifetimes, as it happens. I could’ve drowned in a moat. I’d witnessed a murder – two murders. I’d been shot at and now I’d almost been washed away by a flash flood. I was sorely tempted to tell Sestra that I’d changed my mind. But before I had a chance to say anything Sestra told me to turn around.
I did as she said and saw a wall about twenty metres away from where I stood, a vertical wall that rose into the sky just as the wall between Sectors D and C had. I asked Sestra the all-important question, knowing full well what the answer was going to be.
“Are we...?”
“Yes.”
“We’
