Cry of the Children (2013)
“He had spent many nights on his own before he had been taken into care two years ago. It shouldn’t have been so, but that is what had happened. He was used to dark and to loneliness. He had also grown used to fear in those days, and to coping with fear.
But this was a different and greater fear than anything Raymond had known before. He was frightened, very frightened. He had no idea where he was and that made things much worse. But he was still alive. He had thought when he was first seized th...at he would be dead by now. That girl Lucy Gibson, who was in the class below him at school, had been killed. She’d been strangled. It said so in the paper.
Mrs Allen had tried to stop him reading the print beside the photograph on the front page of the paper. She’d said it wasn’t good for him. Well, what was happening now wasn’t good for him, was it? This wasn’t good for him at all. This is what Mrs Allen should have protected him from, not some silly old newspaper.
He wished he hadn’t thought of Mrs Allen.MoreLess
But this was a different and greater fear than anything Raymond had known before. He was frightened, very frightened. He had no idea where he was and that made things much worse. But he was still alive. He had thought when he was first seized th...at he would be dead by now. That girl Lucy Gibson, who was in the class below him at school, had been killed. She’d been strangled. It said so in the paper.
Mrs Allen had tried to stop him reading the print beside the photograph on the front page of the paper. She’d said it wasn’t good for him. Well, what was happening now wasn’t good for him, was it? This wasn’t good for him at all. This is what Mrs Allen should have protected him from, not some silly old newspaper.
He wished he hadn’t thought of Mrs Allen.MoreLess
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