“Give those back!” Kira smiled and said “Not until tonight”. This vague reply infuriated Charlotte. She lunged at the handcuff keys, but her left hand couldn’t reach them. The endeavour was made more impossible by Kira dropping them into her left school coat pocket. “Abduction’s a serious crime. You could get sent down for this” The warning didn’t prick the schoolgirl’s conscience. “I’m hungry” “Prison food’s what you’ll be eating if you don’t un-cuff me” DC Webster said. “I’ll get us some sausages” “I’m vegan” “Back in a bit” Going into the kitchen through the back door, Kira stopped at the fridge, and took out an unopened pack of bangers. She laid it down next to the bread bin. A pair of scissors sliced through the cling film covering them. The frying pan’s centre was doused in cooking oil, the hob beneath it was turned on and very soon the sausages were tossed in. They were brown all over in eight minutes. T
3 of Jade’s paperbacks lost the ‘unread’ label over the entire night. Laid on top of her bedcover, she got through them all. The constant read was once a slog, but effortless was the word she now attributed to that pastime. Near the end of her first sleepless night, she felt no symptoms associated with insomnia. “Not one of his best” she said about the second novel. Her binge-read didn’t quite last until dawn. An hour stood between darkness and sunrise. During that period, she thought of Skye’s revelation. She couldn’t ignore that it changed the headmistress-pupil dynamic. When the 60 minutes she had to get her head round this began to run out, Jade decided to test one of her newest abilities. She held the two legs under the foot of her bed and lifted it. Some extra muscular effort was called for. Her well of unlimited strength was about to run dry, and it wouldn’t be full till after 7pm. She lowered it carefully onto the carpet. The sensation of arm muscle over-usage led her t