Chapter 14He leant forward, his eyes wide, his expression manic, the torch held beneath his chin, illuminating his pale face unnaturally in the dark around them.
“And that’s when they discovered there was no way out! The trees of the forest had grown up around them so that they were trapped forever!”
He waited the requisite amount of time for a response, and when none was forthcoming, sighed and lowered his torch, looking around at the listless expressions of his students as they stared blankly back at him.
“You know,” he said, rising from the corner of the desk, “if you can’t even muster the energy to be scared by a good ghost story, I begin to worry there’s little hope for you kids.”
Still they looked back at him sullenly from the dark, a couple of them oblivious to the atmosphere, b
