Melanie had taken a taxi to the old house. She had gotten the address from the internet pages. As the vehicle pulled away, Melanie pulled her coat tightly around her, fending off a bitter wind. She looked at the burnt-out shell. The smell of burnt wood and plastics lingered in the air. It had started to rain, a drizzle-like powdered water that hung in the wind.
Melanie closed her eyes and took in the feeling of the weather against her skin. She felt like a newborn baby that had never experienced such a thing before. If it hadn’t been for Toby, she might not have had the chance to have been out in the sun days before. Melanie had only managed to break out at night to place items she had acquired around the clinic in her escape pack.
That’s when she thought back to Toby – where had he gott
