“The question took time to answer. There was a long, breathless pause; an in-between time where he wasn’t quite sure. No, because he could feel his heart beating like a roadman’s jackhammer, his shoulder hurt like hell and a metallic taste told him his mouth was bleeding. For some reason it seemed important that he hadn’t lost any teeth and he ran his tongue over them, checking the molars one by one. Someone was screaming quite close by and he could hear a voice shouting for help. He moved his a...rms and legs. Surprisingly, they were all present and correct. The inky blackness seemed terribly extreme until he realized his eyes were screwed tight shut. Very carefully, he opened them and a low, gloomy tunnel appeared ahead of him split by three rails that ran parallel with his face. He lifted his head an inch to get a better view and clattered his skull against something unyielding and metallic. So that’s what the underside of a Tube train looked like? It came to him in a rush. In that second he realized how close he had come and he had a vision of an alternative end that featured ragged lumps of flesh, splinters of bone and a single eyeball discovered some way down the track.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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