Chapter 27The cage stood at the centre of the room, a brilliantly lit Perspex box surrounded by shadow on all sides. Inside the thing that still vaguely possessed Luna Labyrinth’s shape drifted back and forth, toes grazing the floor, bouncing off the walls, turning in the opposite direction and travelling as far as it could, before hitting another wall and turning again.
Poppy stood hesitantly in the open doorway, the only source of illumination save for the box itself, and she felt a tremble in her legs, in her heart, as her mother drifted about in the air, her eyes rolling in her enlarged head. Her grandfather laid a hand on her shoulder and she almost cried out in panic, startled at the touch of another human. Sensing her reluctance, he smiled reassuringly.
“It’s okay to be nervous.”
