FOLLOW ME DOWN
“Come along down, sir. Step this way. Only a shilling, sir, to view the Changeling Child. Only a shilling to view the strangest work of nature that ever was. Come, sir. Follow me down.”
THE MERRYBEGOT
She promised me I would not have to behave like this for much longer. In a day or two we would stage our recovery. Wake up all smiles and do our tiresome chores, like good obedient girls.
It did not happen like that. It went too far.
IVY
Ivy is in danger... she just doesn't know it yet.
Ivy has been spotted in a rough part of London by Oscar Aretino Frosdick, a rich Victorian painter. He needs a muse and Ivy
is perfect - a stunner.
HAZEL
Over in one corner stood a doll's house, its brick-painted front shut tight, and fastened with a big hook and eye. It was a long time since Hazel had played with it; so long that she could no longer remember whether the mother doll was in bed with a headache or down in the kitchen frying miniature eggs in a tiny pan. The father doll, she knew, would be sitting alone in the drawing room. And the little girl doll was hiding in a cupboard.
ROWAN THE STRANGE
How does a doctor examine a person’s brain? They won’t use
knives on me, will they? Rowan knows he is strange. But dangerous?
He didn’t mean to scare his sister. In his right mind, he wouldn’t
hurt a fly. But there’s a place he can go where they say they
can sort him out.
WRECKERS
The lid gave, eventually , with surprisingly little noise. Nothing splintered. Nothing broke. No hinges flew, or even creaked, and
for a second or two nothing happened at all. Then came the first scream. It blew out a candle, that scream...
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