24 The Stranger
Thom dives into a parking spot just outside the house and turns the engine off. He lets his body flop. After all the adrenaline that has been surging through him the last hour, his muscles haven’t relaxed once. He wouldn’t mind now if a huge spaceship fell out of space and crushed him. It would save on a lot of emotional turmoil, and he wouldn’t have to tell Aunty Val that her son was either murdered or planned his own death. All the questions she would ask him – why? What happened? What made him do it? How could he leave us all to deal with this? Thom has no idea, not one, to share with Aunty Val.
Mrs Tray had seemed an unimportant character. Yet she has really opened the can of worms, as such. She confirmed that Daniel had premature knowledge of his death. Either suici
