Chapter 11
Cherry could hear voices. They sounded strangely tinny and she could not understand a word that was spoken. One voice belonged to a woman and the other to a man. Cherry tried very hard to concentrate. Where was she? Who was it talking? Why was she so cold and why was it so dark? She could not feel any of her limbs, let alone move them. Panic spread through her and she tried to scream but even her voice would not obey her. Was she dead? Was she a ghost? She would have expected that she would, in such a situation, be able to see around her. But there was nothing but this awful darkness all around. What had happened to her? How had she got here? Who … who was she? She could not remember anything.
She could feel the darkness pulling and tearing at her. Then she could suddenly feel
