“LUCY… Lucy, time to wake up now...” a voice drifts into my awareness, pulling me out of my nightmares.
My eyes flutter open, and for a moment I'm disorientated. I'm inside a car, Rosa and Norman's car, I now remember - but all of the windows are blackened, as if the dream world and the waking world have intersected and overlapped. Norman is outside the vehicle, leaning in through the open back car door, nudging me gently to wakefulness.
All I can see behind him is darkness. It's like they drove straight into that ominous black hall where the seven princes taunted me, defiled me.
"Where... where are we?" I ask, scrambling into an upright position and peering out into the gloom.
“St. Selaphiel’s Academy, of course,” Norman says, looking momentarily perplexed. “You needed a lift back to
