Chapter Fourteen

She felt bad for not speaking up and hurting the pretty lady’s feelings but then lowered her eyes with a soft sigh there was nothing she could do about it and the Witch was watching her closely so she remained silent. From Heathrow Airport they caught the sleeper train to Scotland and the Witch put her in a small bed with a tiny window shutting the curtain she said simply.

‘Stay here until I come and get you. Go to sleep and when you wake we will be almost home’

She left her alone in the dark and Alcina trembled with fear, the blackness was all-consuming wrapping itself around her small body, she could not breathe and began to panic. Little whimpering sounds came from her lips and she began to struggle for breath as the panic attack gripped her she hated the dark it had always terrified her and then a guardian angel rescued her. The Train Guard had heard the soft whimpers coming from one of his beds and he sensed something was very wrong as the sounds grew strangled so he opened the c