Chapter 24
6.50 p.m.
She was alone, apart from the occasional brief visit from a nurse who seemed to have been struck dumb except for an odd word from beneath a surgical mask when the woman deemed it absolutely necessary. At regular intervals, this nurse injected Emmeline with something but wouldn’t tell her what it was. She never saw her lips, only saw the woman’s eyes. Piercing blue spears.
She wasn’t sure how long this went on. A week? Two? A month? There was no way to tell. She drifted in and out of consciousness, especially after the nurse with the weapons as eyes came in, and one daytime may have been attached to the night sky she saw, or it might have been three days later. She didn’t know. But at least she was in a room above ground, somewhere.
When her eyes were open, she coul
