“I sooooo needed some breakfast like I’d never needed breakfast before. Plus I needed to keep my strength up for later when the right moment for escape presented itself. My stomach was making strange gurgling nosies, I was so utterly starving. I’d even eat a green apple if there was one. And that wholemeal bread too, if they didn’t have croissants. But they were bound to have croissants. Everyone did. I vaguely remembered where the dining room was from my tour with Mr O and soon found the others... in there gloomily tucking into what looked like beige gloop in plastic bowls, while Selene stood behind an enormous pan on a table at the back of the room. She was dressed in a long silver dress and looked like a fairy queen and well out of place in the dismal room where the air smelt of boiled cloth. Ah, happy days, I thought as I glanced around. Not. “Eew. What is that disgusting stuff?” I asked Jake, who was sitting nearest the door. “Boiled glue,” he said. “Porridge,” said Lynn.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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