Chapter 10
Daniel sat quietly, staring out to sea while Sarah prepared the meal. Giving her space to think. As time passed he realised the smell of the cooking was making him hungry. It was the first time he’d felt hunger, for food anyway, since he had been beaten by the outlaws. He welcomed the feeling as another sign that the darkness had left him.
Sarah’s doubts had made him confront his own certainties, made him question whether the darkness was truly gone from his mind. He came to the same conclusion as before. He was certain that it was gone. Right from the start, the morning he woke after having been attacked, he had felt something was not right, something was out of place. Looking back he could now see that even then he had sensed the darkness within, had been aware of th
